{"id":21596,"date":"2022-11-25T23:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21596"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T11:47:51","slug":"there-is-no-war-on-christmas-but-there-is-one-on-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/there-is-no-war-on-christmas-but-there-is-one-on-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No War On Christmas \u2014 But There Is One On Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As America heads into the third Thanksgiving since the pandemic, a lot of things look like they\u2019re back to normal: Families are gathering around the table together and travel is forecast to be at its highest level in decades. Even the anticipated turkey shortage didn\u2019t materialize, according to the USDA. After three long years of socially distanced holidays, we\u2019re back to merely worrying about whether Cousin Bob and Aunt Kim are going to ruin the feast by shouting at each other about politics. Perhaps we can entice them to debate side dishes instead.<\/p>\n

Look closely, though, and there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s strikingly different from how Thanksgiving worked in the long-lost world of November 2019 \u2014 and it\u2019s something to be grateful for: A lot of stores will actually close.<\/p>\n

Back in the before times, one of the long-festering trends of the fourth weekend of November was the steady encroachment of that bigger holiday scheduled for December. Not long ago, Black Friday didn\u2019t even have a name; by 2019, the signature kickoff event of the Christmas shopping season had bled into Thanksgiving itself.<\/p>\n

Thus Walmart, Sears, Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods and Michael\u2019s all announced plans to open with special deals at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving night of 2019. By that point, Target, Best Buy, Macy\u2019s and Kohl\u2019s would already have been open for an hour. Upping the ante, Old Navy and GameStop opened at 3 p.m., and J.C. Penney unlocked the door at 2. A few big chains dispensed with the holiday altogether: Bass Pro Shops and Cabela\u2019s were open at 8 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning. KMart opened at 6:00 in the morning, before the sun had even risen on the United States\u2019 great home-grown holiday.<\/p>\n

This year, by contrast, most, but not all, of the big chains will remain closed for business \u2014 forgoing the opportunity to have customers make the late local news by storming the aisles, but in the process allowing their employees to actually spend the holiday observing a holiday.<\/p>\n

Read more at: www.politico.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As America heads into the third Thanksgiving since the pandemic, a lot of things look like they\u2019re back to normal: Families are gathering around the table together and travel is forecast to be at its highest level in decades. Even the anticipated turkey shortage didn\u2019t materialize, according to the USDA. After three long years of … Continue reading There Is No War On Christmas \u2014 But There Is One On Thanksgiving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5Ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21597,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions\/21597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}