{"id":1711,"date":"2015-11-25T09:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2015-11-27T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:29:26","slug":"1711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flag-works.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/1711\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanksgiving Day<\/strong>\u00a0is a national\u00a0holiday\u00a0celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the\u00a0harvest\u00a0and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the\u00a0second Monday of October\u00a0in Canada and on the\u00a0fourth Thursday of November\u00a0in the United States. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions and has long been celebrated in a\u00a0secular\u00a0manner as well<\/p>\n

Did you know Sarah Josepha Hale was a renowned 19th<\/sup> \u2013century writer and editor who pushed for girl\u2019s education reform and the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. She was also the author of the nursery rhyme \u201cMary Had A Little Lamb\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Thanksgiving Day\u00a0is a national\u00a0holiday\u00a0celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the\u00a0harvest\u00a0and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the\u00a0second Monday of October\u00a0in Canada and on the\u00a0fourth Thursday of November\u00a0in the United States. Several other places around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t