{"id":8695,"date":"2021-11-26T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2021-11-26T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:39:21","slug":"new-yorkthanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/new-yorkthanksgiving-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baa06e12-7c92-411a-b20b-6ce2f7d423d9_1.53484a8bdb90c0003bfffd1d4b0ae001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baa06e12-7c92-411a-b20b-6ce2f7d423d9_1.53484a8bdb90c0003bfffd1d4b0ae001.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baa06e12-7c92-411a-b20b-6ce2f7d423d9_1.53484a8bdb90c0003bfffd1d4b0ae001.jpeg 612w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/baa06e12-7c92-411a-b20b-6ce2f7d423d9_1.53484a8bdb90c0003bfffd1d4b0ae001-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a very nice Thanksgiving yesterday with friends from overseas. We had a traditional turkey dinner, though not with a bird anywhere near the size of Norman Rockwell&#8217;s amazing levitating monster in &#8220;Freedom from Want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of the time a group of students from my high school, a Catholic school in Virginia, delivered a turkey to a poor Black family living in a house on the outskirts of town. It was a gesture of goodwill, wildly misguided. Perhaps, even offensive.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at the house \u2013 a bunch of fresh-faced White kids in school uniforms \u2013 it was obvious that our giant frozen turkey would not fit into the refrigerator, nor would it fit into the small oven, of this tiny shack with a cinderblock step at the front door, toys scattered on the bare earth around the yard. Nevertheless, the young mother who lived there, maintaining her dignity, graciously accepted the gift.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a very nice Thanksgiving yesterday with friends from overseas. We had a traditional turkey dinner, though not with a bird anywhere near the size of Norman Rockwell&#8217;s amazing levitating monster in &#8220;Freedom from Want.&#8221; I am reminded of the time a group of students from my high school, a Catholic school in Virginia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}