{"id":25,"date":"2007-11-22T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-joshua-dumas\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:39:05","slug":"ask-the-staff-joshua-dumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-joshua-dumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Staff: Joshua Dumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/joshface2.thumbnail.jpg\"><strong>The First Thanksgiving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Joshua Dumas<\/strong>, Serials Cataloging, Serials Problem Solving<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/joshface2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For details on this \u201cMad Lib\u201d edition of Ask the Staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/?p=30\"><font color=\"#664422\">read our earlier post<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first Thanksgiving was actually a <strong>TRUMPET <\/strong>of the first <strong>PENGUIN <\/strong>by the <strong>ORNITHOLOGISTS <\/strong>and their <strong>MUSICAL <\/strong>friends in 1621. The <strong>ORNITHOLOGISTS <\/strong>had come to <strong>ICELAND <\/strong>in December of 1620 and had suffered a difficult year. In the fall of 1621, the <strong>CHANNA MASALA <\/strong>crop was ready to <strong>SWIM <\/strong>and the <strong>ORNITHOLOGISTS <\/strong>were preparing for winter. The <strong>MUSICIANS <\/strong>who lived nearby were <strong>RECKLESS <\/strong>and eager to help the <strong>ORNITHOLOGISTS<\/strong>. After the <strong>PENGUIN <\/strong>the leader of the <strong>ORNITHOLOGISTS <\/strong>decided a <strong>TRUMPET<\/strong> would help boost the morale of the <strong>30 <\/strong>colonists remaining and invited the<strong> MUSICAL <\/strong>chief and <strong>70 <\/strong>of his people to join them. The <strong>TRUMPET <\/strong>lasted three days and included wild S<strong>EAL <\/strong>and other fowl, venison, <strong>CHANNA MASALA,<\/strong> nuts and berries. Thanksgiving was not regularly a <strong>TRUMPET <\/strong>until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued a national proclamation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Thanksgiving By Joshua Dumas, Serials Cataloging, Serials Problem Solving For details on this \u201cMad Lib\u201d edition of Ask the Staff, read our earlier post. \u201cThe first Thanksgiving was actually a TRUMPET of the first PENGUIN by the ORNITHOLOGISTS and their MUSICAL friends in 1621. The ORNITHOLOGISTS had come to ICELAND in December of [&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\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17925,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/17925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}