{"id":18216,"date":"2014-11-26T09:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18216"},"modified":"2014-11-26T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T15:15:03","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving-and-how-do-i-prepare-a-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/what-is-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving-and-how-do-i-prepare-a-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of Thanksgiving and how do I prepare a Turkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are important questions, though I must say it is a little late for you to be asking considering that Thanksgiving is right around the corner!<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving is a feast, and feasting is something humans do in many cultures (but not all, probably). A while back I wrote a piece of feasting that you should read to prepare yourself for Thursday:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/11\/22\/the-feast-a-thanksgiving-day-story\/\">The Feast (A Thanksgiving Day Story)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of ways to cook a turkey and everybody has their favorite. But this way is the best:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/11\/18\/how-to-cook-a-turkey-2\/\">How to cook a turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In case you were wondering about the <em>origin of the turkey<\/em>, here&#8217;s the info on that:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/10000birds.com\/history-of-the-turkey-and-the-first-thanksgiving.htm\">The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In case you were feeling bad about cooking the turkey (or other animals) you can find out how to do a <em>Vegan Thanksgiving<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegkitchen.com\/tips\/vegetarian-thanksgiving\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you might want to <em>make gravy<\/em>, in which case you will need information on<em> how to make stock<\/em> as well:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/11\/18\/how-to-make-stock\/\">How to make stock<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/11\/18\/how-to-make-gravy-3\/\">How to make gravy<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are important questions, though I must say it is a little late for you to be asking considering that Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Thanksgiving is a feast, and feasting is something humans do in many cultures (but not all, probably). A while back I wrote a piece of feasting that you should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/26\/what-is-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving-and-how-do-i-prepare-a-turkey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the meaning of Thanksgiving and how do I prepare a Turkey?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,3537,3538,2924,3539],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4JO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}