{"id":2608,"date":"2009-11-26T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2009-11-26T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T01:47:00","slug":"the-thanksgiving-proclamation-21st-century-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"The Thanksgiving Proclamation, 21st Century Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if Abe Lincoln had tried to make Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 2009?&#160; Scott Ott has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/President_s-_Thanks-giving_-order-perplexes-Dems_-pundits-8577806-71889212.html\">a hilarious take on it<\/a>.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leading congressional Democrats see in President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s so-called &quot;Thanks-giving day&quot; declaration not only &quot;a disturbing streak of irrational mysticism,&quot; as one senator called it, &quot;but a view of human nature inconsistent with the modern enlightenment understanding.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Reporters and columnists from the New York Times, among others, recently expressed confusion at Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s claim that he can see blessings in the midst of the trials brought on by what most experts call the &quot;quagmire of a war for cotton&quot; between the Confederacy and the Union.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing, but fair warning; swallow any liquid you may have in your mouth beforehand.&#160; Otherwise it could be all over your computer screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if Abe Lincoln had tried to make Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 2009?&#160; Scott Ott has a hilarious take on it.&#160; Leading congressional Democrats see in President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s so-called &quot;Thanks-giving day&quot; declaration not only &quot;a disturbing streak of irrational mysticism,&quot; as one senator called it, &quot;but a view of human nature inconsistent with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}