{"id":685,"date":"2005-11-24T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T07:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/archives\/685"},"modified":"2011-01-28T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T03:36:23","slug":"happy-turkey-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Happy Turkey Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I told a vegan friend at the gym, &#8220;Happy Tofurky Day,&#8221; but she didn&#8217;t catch it. My sister got a complete dinner from New Seasons (which, I understand, is a local grocery chain) and it was great! Since my mom came back from Japan today, it was me, ma, pa, Mariko, and her husband Peter.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a title=\"Turkey!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=683\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"683\">\t\t \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" alt=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-turkey.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"The rest of the table.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=684\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"684\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"96\" alt=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-t-day-table.jpg\" \/> \t<\/a><a title=\"Turkey!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=683\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"683\"> \t<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You&#8217;ll notice that there are some gifts my mom brought back from Japan. You may notice the shochu and the sweets on the table. She also brought me a new camera! I think they&#8217;re cheaper here but she got a color that isn&#8217;t available in the US, and the instructions and the menus are all in Japanese.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You can also see the toys my pa got:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a id=\"686\" rel=\"attachment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/pa-toys.jpg\" title=\"Pa's toys.\"> \t\t \t\t<\/a><a title=\"Pa's toys.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=686\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"78\" alt=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-pa-toys.jpg\" \/> \t<\/a><a id=\"686\" rel=\"attachment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/pa-toys.jpg\" title=\"Pa's toys.\"> \t<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">and his &#8220;Drip On&#8221; instant coffee, displayed by my sister.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a id=\"687\" rel=\"attachment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/dripon.jpg\" title=\"Drip on!\"> \t\t \t\t<\/a><a title=\"Drip on!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=687\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"66\" height=\"96\" alt=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-dripon.jpg\" \/> \t<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I figure while we&#8217;re at it, here&#8217;s a picture of my sister and her husband, and one of their dog Dede.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Mariko and Peter.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/mariko-and-peter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"688\">\t\t \t\t<\/a><a title=\"Dede on T-day.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/dede-tday.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"689\"> <\/a><a title=\"Mariko and Peter.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=688\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"688\">\t\t \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" alt=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-mariko-and-peter.jpg\" \/> \t<\/a><a title=\"Dede on T-day.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=689\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"689\">\t\t \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"96\" alt=\"689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/thumb-dede-tday.jpg\" \/> \t<\/a><a title=\"Dede on T-day.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/dede-tday.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"689\"> \t<\/a><a title=\"Mariko and Peter.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/mariko-and-peter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment\" id=\"688\"> \t<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">No pictures of me, my dad (who was being cranky when I tried to take his picture) or my mom (whose picture I forgot to take!)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Well, that&#8217;s about enough for now. Since I didn&#8217;t go to the gym last night, I went this morning. Not only that, but I&#8217;m sore from standing on a wobbly board and having Dave the Trainer throw a medicine ball at me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told a vegan friend at the gym, &#8220;Happy Tofurky Day,&#8221; but she didn&#8217;t catch it. My sister got a complete dinner from New Seasons (which, I understand, is a local grocery chain) and it was great! Since my mom came back from Japan today, it was me, ma, pa, Mariko, and her husband Peter. You&#8217;ll notice that there are some gifts my mom brought back from Japan. You may notice the shochu and the sweets on the table. She also brought me a new camera! I think they&#8217;re cheaper here but she got a color that isn&#8217;t available in the US, and the instructions and the menus are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=685\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Turkey Day!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4437,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/4437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}