{"id":1045,"date":"2011-11-24T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saints247.net\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2011-11-24T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T21:53:24","slug":"giving-obligatory-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/2011\/11\/giving-obligatory-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Obligatory Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I do the eye rolling thing when I see posts, tweets or (worse) actual conversations about people giving thanks to things on Thanksgiving. Me, I’m way more of a wearing-a-costume-just-not-on-Halloween-guy or a I’ll-give-you-flowers-and-treats-but-definitely-not-on-Valentine’s-Day-fella.<\/p>\n

So forgive me for acting out right now but I can’t help it. I’m ecstatically thankful that we aren’t faced with a nightmare combination of Spurs\/Saints merchandise (because the Saints still play in New Orleans). And that San Diego gave up on Drew Brees (because New Orleans has a title now). And that the NFL lockout was avoided (Ahem, NBA).<\/p>\n

And when (if) the other shoe drops and the Saints fall out of the relevancy zone, I’ll still be thankful for those same things. Merry X-mas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do the eye rolling thing when I see posts, tweets or (worse) actual conversations about people giving thanks to things on Thanksgiving. Me, I’m way more of a wearing-a-costume-just-not-on-Halloween-guy or a I’ll-give-you-flowers-and-treats-but-definitely-not-on-Valentine’s-Day-fella. So forgive me for acting out right now but I can’t help it. I’m ecstatically thankful that we aren’t faced with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,137,152,162],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-chris-trew","tag-saints","tag-thanksgiving","tag-trew-to-the-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pelicansreport.com\/saints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}