{"id":73318,"date":"2013-11-28T07:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73318"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:46:38","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73318","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much to be thankful for. My health, my family, my friends, my work, and my mind.  Once you&#8217;ve lost it, it&#8217;s amazing to come back to it and find it still working.  Very thankful for the growth of this past year and all the support I&#8217;ve gotten.  And my beautiful niece and nephews.  I am also thankful for my wandering obsessive spirit.  Those obsessions have led me down some very fruitful entertaining paths.  From Dean Stockwell to <i>Supernatural<\/i> to you-know-who. <\/p>\n<p>I am also thankful for images like the following.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanskgiving wouldn&#8217;t be Thanksgiving without<br \/>\n1. blatant cultural appropriation and<br \/>\n2. Elvis (because who is more American than Elvis?)<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful. Ridiculous. Sublime. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n.jpg\" alt=\"534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n\" width=\"314\" height=\"534\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n-58x100.jpg 58w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n-117x200.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/534754_10151176710622632_1180985299_n-235x400.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd if there are those out there who don&#8217;t think Elvis is a good actor, it&#8217;s okay, you just don&#8217;t know any better. Take a Time Out and watch <i>Live a Little, Love a Little<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mooninthegutter.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/31-performances-ripe-for-rediscovery-20.html\" target=\"blank\">I wrote about that one here.<\/a>) Or, hell, for Thanksgiving, watch <i>Flaming Star<\/i>. &#8220;&#8216;That woman&#8217;?? Don&#8217;t she got a name like white people?&#8221; So good. <\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all you &#8216;Mericans out there.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much to be thankful for. My health, my family, my friends, my work, and my mind. Once you&#8217;ve lost it, it&#8217;s amazing to come back to it and find it still working. Very thankful for the growth of this past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73318"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73331,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73318\/revisions\/73331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}