{"id":9780,"date":"2016-11-24T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2019-12-24T11:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:50:24","slug":"a-thanksgiving-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/11\/24\/a-thanksgiving-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve posted this. Unfortunately, I find it all too topical these days, thirty years after it was written.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sLSveRGmpIE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts.<br \/>\n  Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.<br \/>\n  Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.<br \/>\n  Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.<br \/>\n  Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.<br \/>\n  Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.<br \/>\n  Thanks for the KKK.<br \/>\n  For nigger-killin&#8217; lawmen, feelin&#8217; their notches.<br \/>\n  For decent church-goin&#8217; women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.<br \/>\n  Thanks for &#8220;Kill a Queer for Christ&#8221; stickers.<br \/>\n  Thanks for laboratory AIDS.<br \/>\n  Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.<br \/>\n  Thanks for a country where nobody&#8217;s allowed to mind their own business.<br \/>\n  Thanks for a nation of finks.<br \/>\n  Yes, thanks for all the memories \u2014 all right, let&#8217;s see your arms!<br \/>\n  You always were a headache and you always were a bore.<br \/>\n  Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,16,234,1405],"class_list":["post-9780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-quotes","tag-video","tag-william-s-burroughs","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}