{"id":41444,"date":"2015-11-22T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41444"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T19:08:32","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-what-does-mary-had-a-little-lamb-have-to-do-with-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-what-does-mary-had-a-little-lamb-have-to-do-with-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What Does \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d Have to do with Thanksgiving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/sinclair-the-sheep-rug?source=blog_UK151122\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41735 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Sinclair-620.jpg\" alt=\"Sinclair the Sheep Rug | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOh, only EVERYTHING. As you enjoy your beautiful table spread, togetherness, and that fourth slice of pie, maybe give a little nod to Mary, her lamb, and <a title=\"Sarah Josepha Hale - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Josepha_Hale\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Joespha Hale<\/a>, the writer of the <a title=\"Mary Had a Little Lamb - Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb\" target=\"_blank\">nursery rhyme<\/a>. Hale campaigned for 20 years and through five presidents to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. She lobbied congressmen, wrote annual editorials, and sent letters to every governor in the United States. Sadly, no president or elected official listened to her until Abraham Lincoln. She convinced Lincoln in a letter dated September 28th, 1863 that Thanksgiving would be a great way to unify the country after the Civil War ended. Lincoln agreed and <a title=\"Lincoln proclaims official Thanksgiving holiday - History.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/lincoln-proclaims-official-thanksgiving-holiday\" target=\"_blank\">declared the last Thursday in November<\/a> as our country\u2019s third national holiday, sharing company with Independence Day and Washington\u2019s birthday. Congress officially <a title=\"Congress Establishes Thanksgiving - US National Archives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/legislative\/features\/thanksgiving\/\" target=\"_blank\">set the date into U.S. law in 1941<\/a>. So the next time you\u2019re passing the stuffing, give thanks for Mary and her little lamb.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sinclair the Sheep Rug | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/sinclair-the-sheep-rug?source=blog_UK151122\" target=\"_blank\">Sinclair the Sheep Rug<\/a> | $98<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, only EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":41737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[776,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41444"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41751,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41444\/revisions\/41751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}