{"id":2720,"date":"2013-11-26T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/thanksgiving\/abraham-lincoln-father-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday.html"},"modified":"2013-11-26T04:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T09:52:00","slug":"abraham-lincoln-father-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/thanksgiving\/abraham-lincoln-father-of-the-thanksgiving-holiday.html","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Lincoln, father of the Thanksgiving holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But declaring Thanksgiving Day a formal holiday on the fourth Thursday in November required a pair of presidents &#8212; two of the most famous, in fact. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was Lincoln who issued an 1863 proclamation &#8230;<br \/>\nSpecial Occasions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&amp;aid=&amp;tid=a2aec1d2b18349cea91fff9a8c77d312&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fnation%2F2013%2F11%2F26%2Fthanksgiving-abraham-lincoln-franklin-roosevelt%2F3685975%2F&amp;c=7zM3cFG8dfDHtomDEIxlBQB07iVzXtj7WFf_9hQINJA&amp;mkt=en-us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Special Moments continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving Holiday Moments: <a href=\"http:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/Thanksgiving_Ideas.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Special Moments Thanksgiving  Ideas <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But declaring Thanksgiving Day a formal holiday on the fourth Thursday in November required a pair of presidents &#8212; two of the most famous, in fact. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was Lincoln who issued an 1863 proclamation &#8230; Special Occasions: Special Moments continue reading Thanksgiving Holiday Moments: Special Moments Thanksgiving Ideas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialmomentshome.com\/myblessings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}