{"id":24,"date":"2007-11-22T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-taya-franklin\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:39:05","slug":"ask-the-staff-taya-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-taya-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Staff: Taya Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The First Thanksgiving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Taya Franklin<\/strong>, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer for Business and Economics<\/p>\n<p>For details on this &#8220;Mad Lib&#8221; edition of Ask the Staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/?p=30\">read our earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first Thanksgiving was actually a <strong>BALL <\/strong>of the first <strong>BENCH <\/strong>by the <strong>PIRATES <\/strong>and their <strong>CRAZY <\/strong>friends in 1621. The <strong>PIRATES <\/strong>had come to <strong>FIJI <\/strong>in December of 1620 and had suffered a difficult year. In the fall of 1621, the <strong>GYROS <\/strong>crop was ready to <strong>KICK <\/strong>and the <strong>PIRATES <\/strong>were preparing for winter. The <strong>CRAZIES <\/strong>who lived nearby were <strong>QUICK<\/strong> and eager to help the <strong>PIRATES<\/strong>. After the <strong>BENCH <\/strong>the leader of the <strong>PIRATES <\/strong>decided a <strong>BALL<\/strong> would help boost the morale of the <strong>43 <\/strong>colonists remaining and invited the <strong>CRAZY <\/strong>chief and <strong>89 <\/strong>of his people to join them. The <strong>BALL <\/strong>lasted three days and included wild <strong>DOGS <\/strong>and other fowl, venison, <strong>GYROS<\/strong> nuts and berries. Thanksgiving was not regularly a <strong>BALL <\/strong>until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued a national proclamation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Thanksgiving By Taya Franklin, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer for Business and Economics For details on this &#8220;Mad Lib&#8221; edition of Ask the Staff, read our earlier post. &#8220;The first Thanksgiving was actually a BALL of the first BENCH by the PIRATES and their CRAZY friends in 1621. The PIRATES had come to FIJI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17926,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/17926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}