{"id":2721,"date":"2022-11-29T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2022-11-29T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:57:46","slug":"thanksgiving-2022-goes-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2022 goes &#8216;&#8230;back to normal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/table.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thanksgiving 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just did a newspaper article about a local community center that puts on an annual <strong>Thanksgiving Dinner <\/strong>event.  Attendance this year, according to the director, broke all kinds of records.  The director surmised <strong>&#8216;inflation creep,&#8217;<\/strong> number one, is attributable, to the rise in attendance.  And two, after all the Covid lockdowns\/restrictions the past two years in this country, she said people simply like <em>&#8220;&#8230;getting out again.&#8221;<\/em>  In fact, she continued, the laughter, the smiles, the conversations in general at the tables, were quite poignant to her.  And on a contemporary affairs front, it&#8217;s not hard to seen why the protests over stringent <strong>(Zero Covid Policy)<\/strong> lockdowns in China are erupting.  As president, I would stand with the general populace in China &#8212; unlike what the current U.S. administration is doing.  Human rights should always trump trade concerns, and so on.  Especially if you&#8217;re coming at it from a spiritual angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a newspaper article about a local community center that puts on an annual Thanksgiving Dinner event. Attendance this year, according to the director, broke all kinds of records. The director surmised &#8216;inflation creep,&#8217; number one, is attributable, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2721\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}