{"id":35442,"date":"2025-10-26T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/?p=35442"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:28:27","slug":"thanksgiving-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/thanksgiving-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Thanksgiving a part of Christmas or is Christmas a part of Thanksgiving?<\/p>\n

It is not so strange of a question. Many of us seem to celebrate both as a part of each other. In this merry episode we’re exploring, as we do each year, the history, traditions and music of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

We love Thanksgiving. You love Thanksgiving. In fact, everyone loves Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

What’s not to love? It doesn’t cost much. It does not require a whole season’s worth of preparation. Decorating is minimal. And it brings people together.<\/p>\n

But Thanksgiving is not without it’s controversies. And it is not without its mistaken histories. Outright lies about Thanksgiving and how\/where it is celebrated abound on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, we’ll give you the straight truth. From turkey to stuffing, we’re determine to honor Thanksgiving in our hearts and give it honor year round.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Is Thanksgiving a part of Christmas or is Christmas a part of Thanksgiving? It is not so strange of a question. Many of us seem to celebrate both as a part of each other. In this merry episode we’re exploring, as we do each year, the history, traditions and music of Thanksgiving. We love Thanksgiving. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Thanksgiving and Christmas","_seopress_titles_desc":"Is Thanksgiving a part of Christmas or is Christmas a part of Thanksgiving? It's a merry mystery we unravel on The Christmas Show.","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":187,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","category-thanksgiving","category-the-christmas-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35873,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35442\/revisions\/35873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}