{"id":163600,"date":"2024-11-28T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163600"},"modified":"2024-11-28T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:18:05","slug":"holiday-open-thread-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163600","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thanksgiving-dinner-2023-B.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Happy Thanksgiving TAH family!<\/strong> <\/span>Since millions are going to express thankfulness for what they have, this post asks a question. How many decades worth of Thanksgiving have each of you guys expressed thanks? As was done in previous Thanksgiving open threads, here&#8217;s some advice for eating leftovers for the rest of the week. Before putting the leftovers in the microwave, spray water on the food. By the time the food is microwaved, it would taste like it had just come from the oven.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163625\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tday01.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tday01.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tday01.png?resize=333%2C333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tday01.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tday01.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving TAH family! Since millions are going to express thankfulness for what they have, this post asks a question. How many decades worth of Thanksgiving have each of you guys expressed thanks? As was done in previous Thanksgiving open threads, here&#8217;s some advice for eating leftovers for the rest of the week. Before putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-GyI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}