{"id":722,"date":"2007-11-21T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=722"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:14:43","slug":"722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/11\/21\/722\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><!--[if gte vml 1]>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n<![endif]--><!--[if !vml]-->So it&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving, so I&#8217;m sure the Xanga traffic will be a lot slower today.&nbsp; But since a few of us have to work today, I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and post to give everyone something to read!<\/p>\n<p>Classes end at 1:00 today at CU, but I have an 11:00 and a 12:00.&nbsp; However, most of my students, I&#8217;m sure, will be skipping today, so I&#8217;m not terribly concerned about having to stay the entire time!&nbsp; My Comp students were turning in the second drafts of their papers before they left, so hopefully, those are pretty much at my office so I don&#8217;t have to wait around for them!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fun fact for the day<\/span>:&nbsp; In my research for grad school (sorry Terri), I learned something interesting.&nbsp; The story about the pilgrims being saved by the Indians (Squanto, specifically), thus inspiring the first Thanksgiving is not terribly accurate.&nbsp; You see, Squanto, it seems, learned all this agricultural knowledge in Europe, and he was directly connected with the British government&#8217;s representative in Canada.&nbsp; So it wasn&#8217;t the Indians helping out the white man as much as the British using every means necessary to assist the new colonists in colonizing a new land.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure which version I like better!<br \/><!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving, so I&#8217;m sure the Xanga traffic will be a lot slower today.&nbsp; But since a few of us have to work today, I figured I&#8217;d go ahead and post to give everyone something to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/11\/21\/722\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}