{"id":16423,"date":"2012-07-09T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T08:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2012-07-09T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T09:00:01","slug":"story-of-the-day-090712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/story-of-the-day-090712\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of The Day- 09\/07\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One\u00a0 thanksgiving season a family was seated around their table, looking at the annual holiday bird. From the oldest <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>to the youngest, they were to express their praise. When they came to the 5-year-old in the family, he began by looking at <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the turkey and expressing his thanks to the turkey, saying although he had not tasted it he knew it would be good. After <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>that rather novel expression of thanksgiving, he began with a more predictable line of credits, thanking his mother for <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>cooking the turkey and his father for buying the turkey. But then he went beyond that. He joined together a whole hidden <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>multitude of benefactors, linking them with cause and effect. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He said, &#8220;I thank you for the checker at the grocery store who checked out the turkey. I thank you for the grocery store people <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>who put it on the shelf. I thank you for the farmer who made it fat. I thank you for the man who made the feed. I thank you for <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>those who brought the turkey to the store.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Using his Columbo-like little mind, he traced the turkey all the way from its origin to his plate. And then at the end he solemnly <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>said &#8220;Did I leave anybody out?&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His 3-year-older brother, embarrassed by all those proceedings, said, &#8220;God.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solemnly and without being flustered at all, the 5-year-old said,&#8221;I was about to get to him.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, isn&#8217;t that the question about which we ought to think at Thanksgiving time? Are we really going to get to him this <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thanksgiving?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One\u00a0 thanksgiving season a family was seated around their table, looking at the annual holiday bird. From the oldest to the youngest, they were to express their praise. When they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16428,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions\/16428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}