{"id":22187,"date":"2025-11-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=22187"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:57:54","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/happy-thanksgiving-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some of the things that I&#8217;m thankful for, in no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My wife<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My kids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our house<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our church<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Our Savior, Jesus Christ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My parents and extended family<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My in-laws, and their help with watching the kids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we live in the United States of America<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we live in Utah Valley<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we live so close to family<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we have sufficient for our needs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Orem Public Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brigham Young University, especially the family study room at the library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My wife&#8217;s job at BYU<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My writing career, and the opportunity to be an indie author<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good food, especially on waffle day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good weather, even in November<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The mountains and nature, which we have so abundantly here in Utah<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we have a working vehicle that can fit all of us<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we live so close to so many temples<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That Dallin H. Oaks is the president of the church<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we have the Book of Mormon, in addition to the Bible and other scripture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That Donald Trump is the president of this country<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That I don&#8217;t have to be politically correct on my own blog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That I still have a good relationship with my Democrat parents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That so many conflicts in the world appear to be trending toward peace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That we own so many great books\u2014more than we know where to shelve them, in fact<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>That I have so many great readers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the things that I&#8217;m thankful for, in no particular order:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2035],"class_list":["post-22187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-thanksgiving-2025","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-5LR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22378,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22187\/revisions\/22378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}