{"id":645,"date":"2008-11-26T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/26\/happy-thanksgiving-plus-fun-turkey-cartoons\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:01:05","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-plus-fun-turkey-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/26\/happy-thanksgiving-plus-fun-turkey-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving! (Plus, Fun Turkey Cartoons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt in my mind&#8230; Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I love the food. Yes, I love the four-day weekend. Yes, I love being surrounded by family and friends. However, it is the spirit of this holiday that resonates most with me.<\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a very, very, very lucky person after my heart valve surgery. That said, Robyn (my wife) and I have A LOT to be thankful for. To stop and take an entire day to celebrate that thankfulness is beyond appropriate&#8230; It is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/happy-thanksgiving-2008.gif\" width=\"438\" height=\"362\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, when my family sits down to eat, we will go around the dinner table and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/20\/two-years-later-still-very-thankful-for-my-heart-valve-surgery\/\">share what we are thankful for<\/a>. Of the many things I will offer thanks for is&#8230; YOU!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The caring people in this growing community are making a global difference in the lives of current and future heart valve surgery patients. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Thanks for sharing your emotions. Thanks for sharing your challenges. Thanks for sharing your victories. Thanks for sharing your experiences. On behalf of Robyn (my wife), thanks so much for everything!<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; How about some Thanksgiving fun? Here are some great cartoons I just received from a friend. (I&#8217;m curious to know if you find them as hysterical as me.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Turkey%20Hiding.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"406\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Turkeys%20Mooing.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Thanksgivingflamingo.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"230\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Finally, how about a fun Thanksgiving rhyme?<\/p>\n<p>May your stuffing be tasty<br \/>\nMay your turkey plump,<br \/>\nMay your potatoes and gravy<br \/>\nHave never a lump.<br \/>\nMay your yams be delicious<br \/>\nAnd your pies take the prize,<br \/>\nAnd may your Thanksgiving dinner<br \/>\nStay off your thighs!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving! And&#8230; Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}