{"id":29671,"date":"2013-11-28T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29671"},"modified":"2013-11-28T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T21:08:12","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29671","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ from the crew at <strong>Zenpundit<\/strong> via <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Blog-friend <strong>Michael Robinson<\/strong> emailed me yesterday to let me know that the (US) <strong>National Archives<\/strong> have now posted all their Thanksgiving films &#8212; many taken abroad in war zones &#8212; and suggested Zenpundit&#8217;s readers might enjoy one or more of them. <\/p>\n<p>This first clip from 1930 is almost more of an online education than I need, but if my tech skillz are sufficient it should be followed by others from the same archive &#8212; several clips in the series showing wartime Thanksgivings during WWII, in Vietnam and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3AjdMF_miM?list=PLugwVCjzrJsVjf5yTrY8_9mlmJT0ndzBA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My 70th birthday fell yesterday, so that first clip would have been shot a dozen years before I was born: time flies.  As a Brit, I didn&#8217;t run acrsss Thanksgiving until I was in India of all places, decades later &#8212; and this evening I&#8217;ll be celebrating it here in California with my boys.  <\/p>\n<p>So before I go spruce myself up for the event, I&#8217;d like to wish a <strong>Happy Thanksgiving<\/strong> &#8212; and <strong>Chag Sameach<\/strong> &#8212; as appropriate, to all our ZP readers.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks, Michael, for the suggestion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ from the crew at Zenpundit via Charles Cameron ] . Blog-friend Michael Robinson emailed me yesterday to let me know that the (US) National Archives have now posted all their Thanksgiving films &#8212; many taken abroad in war zones &#8212; and suggested Zenpundit&#8217;s readers might enjoy one or more of them. This first clip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,526,51,976,560,717,67,1,229,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-charles-cameron","category-history","category-holidays","category-india","category-judaism","category-movies","category-uncategorized","category-vietnam-war","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29671"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29687,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29671\/revisions\/29687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}