{"id":7632,"date":"2011-11-23T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T06:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2011-11-22T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T04:30:58","slug":"the-required-remember-to-give-thanks-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-required-remember-to-give-thanks-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Required &#8220;Remember To Give Thanks&#8221; Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re neck deep with family here at La Casa de Kraft. My mom is the sole representative of my family in for the holiday. My wife&#8217;s family includes her parents, her grandmother, a cousin in the military in San Antonio for training, an aunt, an uncle and a few more cousins. Virtually every room has been &#8220;enhanced&#8221; with additional sleeping areas. Let&#8217;s just say we added a crib to our bedroom closet (hey, there&#8217;s a A\/C vent and a window, it&#8217;s a room!)<\/p>\n<p>While the Black Friday sales and the travel news will dominate our e-mail inboxes, news outlets and plenty of online commentaries, the holiday gives us some chance to reflect upon the blessings that we&#8217;ve seen in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this is too often an afterthought after figuring out where Thanksgiving will be held, figuring out travel, figuring out dinner, making sure that the Texas-Texas A&amp;M game will be on, running the Turkey Trot, eating too much, regretting eating too much and then being anxious that the normal grind was about to return.<\/p>\n<p>While clich\u00e9<em>, <\/em>tomorrow, let&#8217;s try to focus on giving thanks to God, our family and friends, and all those who touched us during the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re neck deep with family here at La Casa de Kraft. My mom is the sole representative of my family in for the holiday. My wife&#8217;s family includes her parents, her grandmother, a cousin in the military in San Antonio for training, an aunt, an uncle and a few more cousins. Virtually every room has&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-required-remember-to-give-thanks-post\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,90],"tags":[399,139,397,398],"class_list":{"0":"post-7632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-faith-blog","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-holiday","10":"tag-thanksgiving","11":"tag-turkey-trot","12":"entry","13":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7595,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/the-advent-of-black-friday-shopping\/","url_meta":{"origin":7632,"position":0},"title":"The Advent of Black Friday Shopping","author":"Crist\u00f3bal Almanza Herrera","date":"November 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but it is deeply based in Christian tradition. 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