{"id":125,"date":"2014-11-15T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T10:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/newjersey1\/2011\/11\/23\/the-history-of-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:59:46","slug":"the-history-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/newjersey1\/2014\/11\/15\/the-history-of-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Thanksgiving.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/newjersey1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/11\/0511-0703-1314-4458_Happy_Thanksgiving_Cornucopia_with_Fruits_Pumpkin_and_a_Bow_clipart_image.jpg\" alt=\"0511-0703-1314-4458_Happy_Thanksgiving_Cornucopia_with_Fruits_Pumpkin_and_a_Bow_clipart_image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/newjersey1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/11\/0511-0703-1314-4458_Happy_Thanksgiving_Cornucopia_with_Fruits_Pumpkin_and_a_Bow_clipart_image.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/newjersey1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/11\/0511-0703-1314-4458_Happy_Thanksgiving_Cornucopia_with_Fruits_Pumpkin_and_a_Bow_clipart_image-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Thanksgiving can be traced back to 1863 when Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since. \u00a0The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the <em>Mayflower<\/em> were originally members of the English Separatist Church.\u00a0 They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the <em>Mayflower.<\/em> But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast &#8211; including 91 native Americans who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the native Americans. The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival and lasted three days.<\/p>\n<p>It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving today. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her <em>Boston Ladies&#8217; Magazine,<\/em> and later, in <em>Godey&#8217;s Lady&#8217;s Book.<\/em> Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale&#8217;s obsession became a reality when, in 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the <em>last<\/em> Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving was proclaimed by every president after Lincoln. The date was changed a couple of times, most recently by Franklin Roosevelt, who set it up one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. Public uproar against this decision caused the president to move Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the <em>fourth<\/em> Thursday in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving can be traced back to 1863 when Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. 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