{"id":642,"date":"2009-11-30T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:24:02","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We arrived in Macon, Georgia on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and spent some time visiting the sites, including the Hay House and Ocmulgee National Monument.\u00c2\u00a0 The Hay House is one of Macon’s more beautiful mansions and now a house museum.\u00c2\u00a0 We learned that the owners went on a three year honeymoon in Europe.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds nice.<\/p>\n

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Hay House in Macon<\/p><\/div>\n

The Ocmulgee National Monument preserves some of the\u00c2\u00a0 man-made mounds, which once were the sites of temples and a earthlodge, which was used for ceremonies for the “Creek” Indians.<\/p>\n

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\"Earthmound<\/a>

Earthmound in Ocmulgee National Monument<\/p><\/div>\n

On Thanksgiving Day we decided that since we couldn’t be with our families, we would volunteer to help others.\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to volunteer to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless at the Salvation Army in Macon.<\/p>\n

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\"Serving<\/a>

Serving Desert at the Salvation Army<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Savlation<\/a>

Savlation Army on Thanksgiving<\/p><\/div>\n

After finishing up at the Salvation Army, we left for Atlanta.\u00c2\u00a0 We checked into the fun little hostel in midtown and went to Mary Mac’s Tea Room for a wonderful southern style Thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n

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\"Thanksgiving<\/a>

Thanksgiving Dinner in Atlanta<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We arrived in Macon, Georgia on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and spent some time visiting the sites, including the Hay House and Ocmulgee National Monument.\u00c2\u00a0 The Hay House is one of Macon’s more beautiful mansions and now a house museum.\u00c2\u00a0 We learned that the owners went on a three year honeymoon in Europe.\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds nice. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4],"tags":[60,94,44],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-georgia","category-usa","tag-food","tag-usa","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}