Driving around town I’ve seen a number of houses that have had their Christmas decorations for a few weeks already. Going to stores, you’ll see most of the Halloween decorations removed and replaced with Christmas products by October 20th.<\/p>\n
It’s almost as if Thanksgiving doesn’t really exist anymore, other than as the day before Black Friday<\/a>. No one decorates for it, stores tend to shift gears from Halloween to Christmas days before the former has ended and generally there seems to be a lot less interest in the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Driving around town I’ve seen a number of houses that have had their Christmas decorations for a few weeks already. Going to stores, you’ll see most of the Halloween decorations removed and replaced with Christmas products by October 20th. It’s almost as if Thanksgiving doesn’t really exist anymore, other than as the day before Black … Continue reading “Remember Thanksgiving?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}