{"id":1538,"date":"2011-11-21T00:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T04:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2011-11-21T00:51:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T04:51:33","slug":"as-thanksgiving-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/as-thanksgiving-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"AS THANKSGIVING APPROACHES\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be having a quiet Thanksgiving at home base this year. Last week in Phoenix, I chatted with a lady whose family celebrated the holiday early so they could go elk hunting on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>How many of y\u2019all will be feasting on turkey from the woods instead of from the market this year?\u00a0 How many will have some other game meat on the table when giving thanks?<\/p>\n<p>When I was a little kid in the 1950s, the traditional Thanksgiving images at school and everywhere else included a blunderbuss in the Pilgrims\u2019 hands.\u00a0 After all, that muzzle-loading smoothbore \u2013 whether or not it had the belled muzzle we associate with that iconic Thanksgiving image \u2013 was where the turkey came from.\u00a0 The image of the gun seems conspicuously gone from today\u2019s Thanksgiving imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Not politically correct, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>In some parts of our country, many will be out hunting for their Thanksgiving Day sport fix instead of sitting around watching football on TV.\u00a0 I hope that will include some of those here.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see hunting on my own Thanksgiving Day schedule, but I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be some time on the backyard range.<\/p>\n<p>How \u2018bout you folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be having a quiet Thanksgiving at home base this year. Last week in Phoenix, I chatted with a lady whose family celebrated the holiday early so they could go elk hunting on the 24th. How many of y\u2019all will be feasting on turkey from the woods instead of from the market this year?\u00a0 How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}