{"id":25391,"date":"2024-11-30T02:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25391"},"modified":"2024-11-30T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:41:27","slug":"read-it-george-washingtons-decree-that-made-thanksgiving-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/read-it-george-washingtons-decree-that-made-thanksgiving-a-national-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"READ IT: George Washington\u2019s Decree That Made Thanksgiving A National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When American families celebrate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving<\/a>, many hearken back to the Pilgrims \u2014 who braved a brutal first year at Plymouth Bay Colony and then, after a bountiful harvest, stopped everything to give thanks to God.<\/p>\n<p>For years after that, many remembered those first difficult days in a new land and the years of plenty that followed \u2014 and also thanked God for rewarding their labor. But it was not until 1789, when that new land had a name and a new leader, that Thanksgiving officially became an American holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/read-it-george-washingtons-decree-that-made-thanksgiving-a-national-holiday\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When American families celebrate\u00a0Thanksgiving, many hearken back to the Pilgrims \u2014 who braved a brutal first year at Plymouth Bay Colony and then, after a bountiful harvest, stopped everything to give thanks to God. For years after that, many remembered those first difficult days in a new land and the years of plenty that followed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/read-it-george-washingtons-decree-that-made-thanksgiving-a-national-holiday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">READ IT: George Washington\u2019s Decree That Made Thanksgiving A National Holiday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Bx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391","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=25391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25392,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391\/revisions\/25392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}