{"id":194,"date":"2013-11-29T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:40:55","slug":"thanksgiving-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The numbers for Thanksgiving ebb and flow and this year it was a smaller group which is fine. We were small but mighty. Brother Bob came up from Corpus Christi and my Dad Gramps flew down from Idaho. We convened at Nana&#8217;s house just a few miles away for a meal of great food and fellowship.<\/span><br \/>\n<a title=\"2013 Thanksgiving  People PicMonkey Collage by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/11110872746\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/11110872746_cbff3b349e_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Thanksgiving  People PicMonkey Collage\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I was the official event photographer. I work really cheap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/11110437954\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/11110437954_93f7f44316_z-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Heather and her mother Nana made the magic happen. My goodness we had a lot of food. I smoked a turkey, Nana provided a smoked ham and a hen, we had noodles, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, dressing, purple hull peas, cranberry sauce, rolls, \u00a0and on and on. Oh yes, the deserts we had pumpkin pie, pumpkin bars, and bread pudding, and oh yes, asparagus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2013 Thanksgiving Food PicMonkey Collage by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/11110804915\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/11110804915_5b143a9050_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Thanksgiving Food PicMonkey Collage\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Yep, we got plenty of leftovers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/11110441524\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/11110441524_37d099a069_z-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">These two mutts didn&#8217;t get to go to Nana&#8217;s house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/11110374575\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/11110374575_a1f78e4584_z-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This one did, Rascal was pretty proud of himself. The other two were a little growly toward him when we got back home.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\">We are really blessed to be able to be together. Not everybody is so fortunate.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<a title=\"20100607_114 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4684622485\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4684622485_6dd1d39e16_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20100607_114\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And of course, if you haven&#8217;t heard before, the agents of everything good in the universe, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the godless heathen Oakland Raiders.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<a title=\"20100607_121 by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4684631149\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4684631149_a56bd64711_z-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"20100607_121\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Outside the stadium Tom was standing a little taller, and it looked he was almost smiling.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So all is right with the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers for Thanksgiving ebb and flow and this year it was a smaller group which is fine. We were small but mighty. Brother Bob came up from Corpus Christi and my Dad Gramps flew down from Idaho. We convened at Nana&#8217;s house just a few miles away for a meal of great food and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,243,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-cowboys","category-football","category-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15788,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/15788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}