{"id":220,"date":"2011-11-21T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-11-21T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:19:41","slug":"important-information-for-your-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/important-information-for-your-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Important information for your Thanksgiving….."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re like our family, the second best thing about Thanksgiving—right after the stuffing—is the annual Turkey Bowl.<\/p>\n

Usually grandpa (your humble blogger) determines the rules\u00a0(usually favoring your humble blogger).\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve had more than a few challenges to the rulings on the field (issued by you-know-who).\u00a0 But\u00a0daughter, Linda—wide receiver, mother of two\u00a0running backs, wife of one of the quarterbacks\u00a0and grandmother of this year’s rookie phenom—has forwarded a set of rules not to be quarreled with.<\/p>\n

We offer them to your family\u00a0as a public service.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204531404577050370294096452.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second<\/a><\/p>\n

I mentioned one quarterback—Linda’s husband, Bill—the other is Paul—Janet’s husband.\u00a0 I also mentioned our new rookie,\u00a0great-grandson Rowan.\u00a0 Rowan may be only six months old, but he’s a bruiser.\u00a0 Bill and Paul\u00a0reportedly are feeling a little\u00a0threatened and have been known to play dirty in the past, particularly with little kids.\u00a0 Rowan is just going to have to learn the ways of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re like our family, the second best thing about Thanksgiving—right after the stuffing—is the annual Turkey Bowl. Usually grandpa (your humble blogger) determines the rules\u00a0(usually favoring your humble blogger).\u00a0\u00a0 We’ve had more than a few challenges to the rulings on the field (issued by you-know-who).\u00a0 But\u00a0daughter, Linda—wide receiver, mother of two\u00a0running backs, wife of one of the quarterbacks\u00a0and grandmother of this year’s rookie phenom—has forwarded a set of rules not to be quarreled with. We offer them to your family\u00a0as a public service. http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204531404577050370294096452.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second I mentioned one quarterback—Linda’s husband, Bill—the other is Paul—Janet’s husband.\u00a0 I also mentioned our new rookie,\u00a0great-grandson Rowan.\u00a0 Rowan may be only six months old, but he’s a bruiser.\u00a0 Bill and Paul\u00a0reportedly are feeling a little\u00a0threatened and have been known to play dirty in the past, particularly with little kids.\u00a0 Rowan is just going to have to learn the ways of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}