{"id":3257,"date":"2022-11-24T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2022-11-24T12:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:42:44","slug":"our-most-important-thanksgiving-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/11\/our-most-important-thanksgiving-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Most Important Thanksgiving Traditions  &#x1f983;&#x1f480;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m a child of the 1980s, so most of my nostalgic holiday memories are TV-related. &#x1f937;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. &#8220;As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243777281\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/243777281\">THANKSGIVING TURKEY GIVEAWAY! (WKRP in Cincinnati)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user31909160\">Tony DeSanto<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Yeah, I repost this every year, because I love this gag, and because&nbsp;watching this on TV\u2014and rehashing it with my mom and sisters each year\u2014is one of my fondest holiday memories. But it is, in my humble, a damn-near perfect gag. That&#8217;s saying something, because I find single-camera laugh-track situation comedies almost entirely unbearable to watch. If you wanna read more of my thoughts on this specific gag and what it can teach writers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-as-god-as-my-witness-i-thought-turkeys-could-fly-gobblegobble-writing\/\">you can do so here<\/a>.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. &#8220;\u2026your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs; we will sell our bracelets by the road sides\u2026&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tJE3KDxTbWI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. \u266c\u266b\u266a  &#8220;Caught his eye on turkey day \/ As we both ate Pumpkin Pie \u2026 &#8221; \u266c\u266b\u266a <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obu4G6AiV2U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. &#8220;What do Jews do on Thanksgiving?&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2019\/11\/in-michigan-a-primer-a-travelogue\/\">wrote this essay a few years back<\/a>;  every word is both true and factual\u2014which is a harder trick than you\u2019d think.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>You&#8217;ll be 15 minutes into that Lesser Family Feast in Michigan when your mother-in-law will turn to you and ask:<\/p><p>&#8220;What do Jews do on Thanksgiving?&#8221;<\/p><p>You should be prepared for this sort of thing in Michigan. But even though I&#8217;m warning you in advance, you still won&#8217;t be prepared.\u2026<\/p><cite>(excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/InMichigan\/\">IN MICHIGAN: A PRIMER, A TRAVELOGUE<\/a>)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope your day is good and sweet. &nbsp;<em>Gobblegobble!<\/em> &#x1f983;&#x1f480;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a child of the 1980s, so most of my nostalgic holiday memories are TV-related. &#x1f937;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f; 1. &#8220;As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!&#8221; THANKSGIVING TURKEY GIVEAWAY! (WKRP in Cincinnati) from Tony DeSanto on Vimeo. (Yeah, I repost this every year, because I love this gag, and because&nbsp;watching this on TV\u2014and rehashing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/11\/our-most-important-thanksgiving-traditions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Most Important Thanksgiving Traditions  &#x1f983;&#x1f480;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[19,11,3],"tags":[363,346,366,847,848],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/109400015707264412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}