{"id":3113,"date":"2012-11-23T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2012-11-23T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:19:28","slug":"the-thanksgiving-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"The Thanksgiving Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all have our various Thanksgiving traditions. One of my traditions is to get together with my brother later in the morning on Thanksgiving as to visit some local taverns and have a few beers. It’s not good to do that on an empty stomach, so I make sure to get a good, hearty breakfast on Thanksgiving. (Since I’m a vegetarian and a semi-hermit, I do not partake of the usual big Thanksgiving day dinner; but at least my breakfast is special.)<\/p>\n

Thus, I have a second Thanksgiving tradition: making pancakes for myself in the morning. While making my pancakes yesterday, I started thinking about the various stories of people seeing the face of Jesus on a tortilla they were baking, e.g. a recent sighting in New Mexico<\/a>, and another down there back in 1977<\/a>. So I took a look at the pancake in my frying pan and wondered what I might see.<\/p>\n

It was not Jesus. But I DID see something — a bunny rabbit!! As outlined in blue. A Thanksgiving Bunny Rabbit?!? But Thanksgiving is for turkeys, bunnies are for Easter!! And you are supposed to eat the turkey but not the bunny!!<\/p>\n

Oh well, my life has always been a bit out of synch with the norm. Despite the bunny, my pancakes still tasted like pancakes (and were very enjoyable, thank you!!). But then again, people eat plenty of chocolate bunnies at Easter, and they don’t taste like rabbit either. <\/p>\n

This experience was a nice bookend to something I say right around Easter in 2010 — i.e., a turkey! I was leaving a supermarket parking lot in Bloomfield, NJ, and there in the middle of the road was a live turkey, just standing there. So, I saw an Easter turkey, and now a Thanksgiving bunny. What’s next? Reindeer on July 4th and Uncle Sam giving away presents in late December? (The cranky conservative pundits would say that the latter is already happening!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have our various Thanksgiving traditions. One of my traditions is to get together with my brother later in the morning on Thanksgiving as to visit some local taverns and have a few beers. It’s not good to do that on an empty stomach, so I make sure to get a good, hearty breakfast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}