{"id":328,"date":"2010-10-11T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-10-11T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T05:14:00","slug":"thanksgiving-is-so-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Is So Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">HAPPY THANKSGIVING!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdwm7aO6I\/AAAAAAAAJgc\/npef44Cm-k4\/s1600\/DSC06009.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdwm7aO6I\/AAAAAAAAJgc\/npef44Cm-k4\/s320\/DSC06009.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526653151146032034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">For  man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.  For nature,  it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.  ~Edwin Way <span>Teale<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Ah the colors, the fresh air, the friendly sun, and the food!<\/p>\n<p>How very autumn is Thanksgiving!  At a time of year when we start to settle in (to a new year to the prospect of another long prairie winter) and become comfortable it is an excellent time to stop and to really think about all our blessings.  Counting our blessings prevents complacency and wards off bitterness!  Now if only fall and Thanksgiving could keep away bitter winter!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time we have been blessed with such a warm autumn!  It is warmer and sunnier then our rain filled summer was!  Playing in the leaves and making mud pies with my kids while their grandmother, my husbands mom, prepared a gluten free Thanksgiving meal (<span>celiac<\/span> in the family) was wonderful!  <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdwLFuTxI\/AAAAAAAAJgU\/iai_6EVUfVY\/s1600\/DSC06020.JPG\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdwLFuTxI\/AAAAAAAAJgU\/iai_6EVUfVY\/s1600\/DSC06020.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdwLFuTxI\/AAAAAAAAJgU\/iai_6EVUfVY\/s320\/DSC06020.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526653143673098002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdvqMBkmI\/AAAAAAAAJgM\/NlBzj9_yohw\/s1600\/DSC06026.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdvqMBkmI\/AAAAAAAAJgM\/NlBzj9_yohw\/s320\/DSC06026.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526653134841156194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sharing pie and turkey with loved ones, and then another piece of pie and more turkey is pretty full filling, and filling!<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKe7w0XH2I\/AAAAAAAAJg8\/ziLbJlm27GI\/s1600\/DSC05945b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 209px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKe7w0XH2I\/AAAAAAAAJg8\/ziLbJlm27GI\/s320\/DSC05945b.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526654442291011426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdxx4ShtI\/AAAAAAAAJgs\/n9cCBdu0V74\/s1600\/DSC05999.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKdxx4ShtI\/AAAAAAAAJgs\/n9cCBdu0V74\/s320\/DSC05999.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526653171265603282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKe7sQvTfI\/AAAAAAAAJg0\/RNp-5Z_1UMs\/s1600\/DSC06001.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TLKe7sQvTfI\/AAAAAAAAJg0\/RNp-5Z_1UMs\/s320\/DSC06001.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526654441067859442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I am absolutely thankful for these people around me!<\/p>\n<p>I am also so thankful for all I am learning lately in the area of thankfulness.  It is a state of the heart and not just an emotion reacting to your current circumstance.  I hope I can continue to let peace, patients and the other fruits of the Spirit work in me to make me a woman with a heart of thankfulness and, therefore, a woman of love.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Delicious  autumn!  My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly  about the earth seeking the successive autumns.  ~<leo_highlight style=\"border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" leohighlights_keywords=\"george%20eliot\" leohighlights_url_top=\"http%3A\/\/shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com\/leonardo\/plugin\/highlights\/3_2\/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520eliot%26domain%3Dwww.blogger.com\" leohighlights_url_bottom=\"http%3A\/\/shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com\/leonardo\/plugin\/highlights\/3_2\/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dgeorge%2520eliot%26domain%3Dwww.blogger.com\" leohighlights_underline=\"true\">George Eliot<\/leo_highlight><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: none; width: 520px; height: 391px; z-index: 2147483647;\">        <!-- Top iFrame -->    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"leoHighlights_top_iframe\" title=\"leoHighlights_top_iframe\" src=\"about:blank\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 520px; height: 294px; z-index: 2147483647;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"294\" width=\"520\">    <\/iframe>        <!-- Bottom iFrame -->    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"leoHighlights_bottom_iframe\" title=\"leoHighlights_bottom_iframe\" src=\"about:blank\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 294px; left: 96px; z-index: 2147483647;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"\" width=\"\">    <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>   <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY THANKSGIVING! For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~Edwin Way Teale Ah the colors, the fresh air, the friendly sun, and the food! How very autumn is Thanksgiving! At a time of year when we start to settle in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5,18,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}