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When Thanksgiving was Weird<\/em> on NPR<\/a> calls out how, at the turn of the last century, Thanksgiving celebrations were incredibly different than they are today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Thanksgiving was Weird on NPR calls out how, at the turn of the last century, Thanksgiving celebrations were incredibly different than they are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holiday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9115,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/holidays-in-movies-thanks-giving\/","url_meta":{"origin":7537,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in Movies: Thanksgiving","author":"leems","date":"November 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Celebrating holidays in my house means media saturation. 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