{"id":680,"date":"2009-11-29T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2009-11-29T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:26:03","slug":"a-thanksgiving-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">Hopefully all of us had a good Thanksgiving and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat too much turkey.\u00c2\u00a0 I had not been feeling too much like eating but the days right around Thanksgiving I regained some appetite. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">On Thanksgiving day we went to be with friends on the outskirts of Houston and enjoy a traditional holiday meal with them.\u00c2\u00a0 The following day my friend George, from Lexington, SC, came to cook a deep fried turkey with all the trimmings.\u00c2\u00a0 That was a long way to come just to cook a turkey, but I was ever so grateful that he took the time to be here and do that for us.\u00c2\u00a0 The hostess we stay with, Bev, had just had a little outpatient surgery and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really feel much like cooking so that worked out very well that George was able to do that for all of us.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a chance to visit, watch George cook the turkey in the deep fryer, and had a great time. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">The next day I got my transfusions and came back to the house.\u00c2\u00a0 George grilled burgers for all of us and then was off to make the 16 plus hour trip back to SC from Houston.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">The food was great, but the visit was more special than any of the rest of those holiday events.\u00c2\u00a0 That George would take the time to travel on Thanksgiving and cook for us the next day was very moving to me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><strong><em>My wish for you today <\/em><\/strong>is that you savor moments like this whenever you can.\u00c2\u00a0 They are often few and far between which makes them even more special when they do happen.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\">~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully all of us had a good Thanksgiving and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat too much turkey.\u00c2\u00a0 I had not been feeling too much like eating but the days right around Thanksgiving I regained some appetite. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-holidays","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-releationships-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}