{"id":23123,"date":"2010-11-26T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lincoln_caplan_thanksgiving_scripture\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T17:00:20","slug":"lincoln_caplan_thanksgiving_scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23123","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Caplan: Thanksgiving Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, with the Great Depression persisting, the governor of Connecticut issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.ct.gov\/lawlib\/history\/thanksgiving.htm\">Thanksgiving Proclamation<\/a> so inspiring that people in the state learned it by heart as if it were scripture. It was common then to memorize stirring speeches and other texts, but not public decrees. The proclamation\u2019s message and 2010\u2019s turmoil make this a very good year to re-read the document.<\/p>\n<p>The governor was Wilbur Cross, and he wrote the proclamation himself. He was an esteemed Shakespeare scholar and had just retired from Yale after an impressive career as an English professor and luminary. At the age of 68 in 1930, by a tiny margin, he won an encore career in politics. His appeal as governor shows what we are missing today&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In a period more trying than our own, Cross did for Connecticut what no leader seems able to do for America today. He buoyed hearts with reassuring words about shared blessings \u201d\u201d \u201cthe yield of the soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained our lives.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/25\/opinion\/25thu4.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1936, with the Great Depression persisting, the governor of Connecticut issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation so inspiring that people in the state learned it by heart as if it were scripture. It was common then to memorize stirring speeches and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23123\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,133,151,108,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}