{"id":738,"date":"2009-11-19T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:44:20","slug":"the-puppies-have-arrived-and-thanks-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/the-puppies-have-arrived-and-thanks-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puppies Have Arrived and Thanks Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The puppies were born yesterday and it&#8217;s time for thanks giving as the circle of life continues on this round, round world.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-739\" title=\"Hector_day1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Hector_day1-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Hector_day1\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-740\" title=\"Juanita_day1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Juanita_day1-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Juanita_day1\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-741\" title=\"Diego_day1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Diego_day1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Diego_day1\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-742\" title=\"Consuela_day1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Consuela_day1-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"Consuela_day1\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-743\" title=\"Chuy_day1\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Chuy_day1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Chuy_day1\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-744\" title=\"Alfredo_day1[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Alfredo_day11-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Alfredo_day1[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;Alice suddenly appeared to announce dinner &#8211; I had by that time forgotten that it was Thanksgiving-and Gertrude put us to work setting the table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have never known such a Thanksgiving feast in my life. It must, I suppose, have been enhanced by the fact that it was completely unexpected, but the amount and quality of the food amounted to a spectacle. I was very moved when I learned that most of the traditional. American foods-including sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, marshmallows, cranberries, all unheard of in Paris had been specifically ordered from America for this dinner and for us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In her usual direct, positive way, Gertrude said that she felt that American children needed to have an American Thanksgiving.&#8221;<\/em> Fritz Peters from BOYHOOD WITH GURDJIEFF<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our world and thank you for coming! We too have never known such a Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The puppies were born yesterday and it&#8217;s time for thanks giving as the circle of life continues on this round, round world. &#8220;&#8230;Alice suddenly appeared to announce dinner &#8211; I had by that time forgotten that it was Thanksgiving-and Gertrude put us to work setting the table. I have never known such a Thanksgiving feast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33,77,206],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-facts","tag-boyhood-with-gurdjieff","tag-fritz-peters","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertrudeandalice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}