{"id":456,"date":"2005-11-23T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=456"},"modified":"2005-11-23T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T21:25:32","slug":"looking-for-the-official-song-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/11\/23\/looking-for-the-official-song-of-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the official song of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Some historians take on Thanksgiving here<\/a>. Or you could go with this<\/a>. Doesn’t matter much.<\/p>\n

If Thanksgiving be a fake holiday, why don’t we hand out cards, like on the fake holiday Valentine’s Day? (Thanksgiving: not q conspiracy from Hallmark. Is it a conspiracy by Butterball?)<\/p>\n

Okay. Here’s the theme song for your Thanksgiving. Just to annoy you. If you know the song, or even the artist, the bombasticity and pomposity of it will inflict you. Yes. Iron Maiden. But in my mind it goes more like: “WHITE MAN CAME! Took our LAND!”:<\/p>\n

White man came across the sea
\nHe brought us pain and misery
\nHe killed our tribes, he killed our creed
\nHe took our game for his own need
\nWe fought him hard we fought him well
\nOut on the plains we gave him hell
\nBut many came too much for Cree
\nOh will we ever be set free?<\/p>\n

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
\nGalloping hard on the plains
\nChasing the redskins back to their holes
\nFighting them at their own game
\nMurder for freedom a stab in the back
\nWomen and children and cowards attack
\nRun to the hills run for your lives<\/p>\n

Run to the hills run for your lives
\nSoldier blue on the barren wastes
\nHunting and killing their game
\nRaping the women and wasting the men
\nThe only good Indians are tame
\nSelling them whisky and taking their gold
\nEnslaving the young and destroying the old
\nRun to the hills run for your lives
\n(repeat to end)<\/i><\/p>\n

What else could you go with? Would you rather go with Alice’s Restaurant<\/a>? (You can get anything you want at… Alic<\/a>… let’s stick with the Iron Maiden absurdity.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some historians take on Thanksgiving here. Or you could go with this. Doesn’t matter much. If Thanksgiving be a fake holiday, why don’t we hand out cards, like on the fake holiday Valentine’s Day? (Thanksgiving: not q conspiracy from Hallmark. Is it a conspiracy by Butterball?) Okay. Here’s the theme song for your Thanksgiving. Just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}