{"id":26,"date":"2007-11-22T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-kevin-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:39:05","slug":"ask-the-staff-kevin-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2007\/11\/22\/ask-the-staff-kevin-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Staff: Kevin Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ghent2.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Kevin Kennedy, Business Manager\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>The First Thanksgiving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Kevin Kennedy<\/strong>, Business Manager<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ghent2.JPG\" title=\"Kevin Kennedy, Business Manager\"><\/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>PAIR OF LEFT HANDED SCISSORS <\/strong>of the first <strong>USED KLEENEX <\/strong>by the <strong>ESKIMOS <\/strong>and their <strong>ABORIGINAL <\/strong>friends in 1621. The <strong>ESKIMOS <\/strong>had come to <strong>AZERBAIJAN <\/strong>in December of 1620 and had suffered a difficult year. In the fall of 1621, the <strong>GOAT&#8217;S HEAD SOUP <\/strong>crop was ready to <strong>HUNT <\/strong>and the <strong>ESKIMOS <\/strong>were preparing for winter. The <strong>ABORIGINALS <\/strong>who lived nearby were <strong>ABSURD <\/strong>and eager to help the <strong>ESKIMOS<\/strong>. After the <strong>USED KLEENEX <\/strong>the leader of the <strong>ESKIMOS <\/strong>decided a <strong>PAIR OF LEFT HANDED SCISSORS<\/strong> would help boost the morale of the <strong>37 <\/strong>colonists remaining and invited the <strong>ABORIGINAL <\/strong>chief and <strong>82 <\/strong>of his people to join them. The <strong>PAIR OF LEFT HANDED SCISSORS <\/strong>lasted three days and included wild <strong>OCELOT <\/strong>and other fowl, venison, <strong>GOAT&#8217;S HEAD SOUP,<\/strong> nuts and berries. Thanksgiving was not regularly a <strong>PAIR OF LEFT HANDED SCISSORS <\/strong>until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued a national proclamation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Thanksgiving By Kevin Kennedy, Business Manager For details on this \u201cMad Lib\u201d edition of Ask the Staff, read our earlier post. \u201cThe first Thanksgiving was actually a PAIR OF LEFT HANDED SCISSORS of the first USED KLEENEX by the ESKIMOS and their ABORIGINAL friends in 1621. The ESKIMOS had come to AZERBAIJAN in [&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\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17924,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/17924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}