{"id":2816,"date":"2005-11-26T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2017-12-23T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T23:39:33","slug":"an-unamerican-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/26\/an-unamerican-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unamerican Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from, of all things, the Macy&#8217;s Day Parade, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/mld\/tallahassee\/entertainment\/13258790.htm\" target=\"_new\">this stunning display<\/a> of unAmericanism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During its live coverage of the annual Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade, NBC did not tell viewers that a giant balloon had caught on a street lamp and injured two sisters.<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sarah and Mary Chamberlain, 11 and 26, were hit by the debris. Sarah needed nine stitches to her head, and Mary, who uses a wheelchair, suffered a bump on her forehead.<\/p>\n<p><b>Their father, Stephen Chamberlain, called it a freak accident and said the family didn&#8217;t plan to sue.<\/b> He said his daughters are looking forward to the special VIP seating Macy&#8217;s offered them for next year&#8217;s parade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s <i>free money<\/i>, and someone (else) has to pay!  What is this country coming to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from, of all things, the Macy&#8217;s Day Parade, we have this stunning display of unAmericanism: During its live coverage of the annual Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade, NBC did not tell viewers that a giant balloon had caught on a street lamp and injured two sisters. &#8230; Sarah and Mary Chamberlain, 11 and 26, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19056,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/19056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}