{"id":7751,"date":"2021-11-25T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2022-01-12T21:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:55:22","slug":"thanksgiving-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themaddlife.com\/?p=7751","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We spent the day with my parents.&nbsp;&nbsp;A little morning walk followed by a little Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade watching and a lot of Thanksgiving skit planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived at my parents around 2:00 and enjoyed charcuterie appetizers along with bacon wrapped goat cheese dates and brown sugar wrapped chicken bites.&nbsp;&nbsp;All delicious.&nbsp;&nbsp;Needing to digest, we watched the annual dog show and went for a leisurely walk in the neighborhood enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex 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