{"id":12040,"date":"2017-11-23T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2017-11-23T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T12:00:50","slug":"the-first-thanksgiving-at-plymouth-in-1914-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/23\/the-first-thanksgiving-at-plymouth-in-1914-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thanksgiving At Plymouth in 1914 They Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><i><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/firstthanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12041\" title=\"firstthanksgiving\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/firstthanksgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/firstthanksgiving.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/firstthanksgiving-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><i>The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth <\/i>by Jennie A. Brownscombe. (1914)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanksgiving<\/b>, or <b>Thanksgiving Day<\/b>, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the <a title=\"American Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\">Civil War<\/a>, President <a title=\"Abraham Lincoln\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abraham_Lincoln\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a> proclaimed a national day of &#8220;Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens&#8221;, to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.<sup id=\"cite_ref-NetINS_Showcase-AB_1-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(United_States)#cite_note-NetINS_Showcase-AB-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> As a <a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">federal<\/a> and <a title=\"Public holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States\">popular<\/a> holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader <a title=\"Christmas and holiday season\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas_and_holiday_season\">holiday season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event that some Americans commonly call the &#8220;First Thanksgiving&#8221; was celebrated by the <a title=\"Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pilgrims_(Plymouth_Colony)\">Pilgrims<\/a> after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.<sup id=\"cite_ref-bradford85_2-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(United_States)#cite_note-bradford85-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, and was attended by 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating &#8220;thanksgivings&#8221;\u2014<a title=\"Day of Prayer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Day_of_Prayer\">days of prayer<\/a> thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought, though the 1621 events were likely not a religious observation.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Encyclop.C3.A6dia_Britannica_4-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_(United_States)#cite_note-Encyclop.C3.A6dia_Britannica-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth by Jennie A. Brownscombe. (1914) Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of &#8220;Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens&#8221;, to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.[1] As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. 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