{"id":9712,"date":"2025-11-27T18:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:07:19","slug":"thanksgiving-day-2025-enjoying-a-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/thanksgiving-day-2025-enjoying-a-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Day 2025, Enjoying a Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/V4DYiJqXZHg?si=0VGMl_vr5XF7s-rg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20251127-01-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot from NTD's YouTube coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Folks enjoying Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/V4DYiJqXZHg?si=0VGMl_vr5XF7s-rg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20251127-07-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot from NTD's YouTube coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A really big turkey in Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/V4DYiJqXZHg?si=0VGMl_vr5XF7s-rg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20251127-08-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot from NTD's YouTube coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">More folks enjoying Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade. (November 27, 2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing profound today, apart from still being around to enjoy being here: which is a pretty big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed watching Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade. That&#8217;s been a high point of my holiday experience for quite some time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I stumbled onto NTD&#8217;s YouTube livestream \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/V4DYiJqXZHg?si=0VGMl_vr5XF7s-rg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/V4DYiJqXZHg?si=0VGMl_vr5XF7s-rg<\/a> \u2014 which was delightfully free of network-generated chatter. I don&#8217;t know how long they&#8217;ll keep their live-replay up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for me today. There&#8217;s a cup of coffee, a chair, and a window waiting for me.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/true-gratitude-wisdom-in-the-comics-thanksgiving-2024\/#illexpress\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20210922ff\/20211124-ThanksGiving2021-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian H. Gill's 'Thanks But I'm Stuf-.' (2021)\"><\/a>\n\n<p>I posted something with a little more content last year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/true-gratitude-wisdom-in-the-comics-thanksgiving-2024\/\">True Gratitude: Wisdom in the Comics \u2014 Thanksgiving 2024<\/a>&#8221; <br>(November 28, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing profound today, apart from still being around to enjoy being here: which is a pretty big deal. I enjoyed watching Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day parade. That&#8217;s been a high point of my holiday experience for quite some time now. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/thanksgiving-day-2025-enjoying-a-parade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"A few screenshots of NTD News coverage of the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade, and the folks enjoying it.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Thanksgiving Day 2025, Enjoying a Parade","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[90,142],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-holidays","tag-thanksgiving-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2wE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9714,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}