{"id":1055677,"date":"2021-11-25T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055677"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T23:28:48","slug":"joe-biden-thanksgiving-proclamation-grateful-during-times-of-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-thanksgiving-proclamation-grateful-during-times-of-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Thanksgiving Proclamation: Grateful During Times of Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-thanksgiving-proclamation-grateful-during-times-of-challenge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1055677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden issued a proclamation for Thanksgiving, noting Americans were grateful during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanksgiving provides us with a time to reflect on our many blessings \u2014 from God, this Nation, and each other,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/11\/24\/a-proclamation-on-thanksgiving-day-2021\/\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe are grateful for these blessings, even \u2014 and especially \u2014 during times of challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden recalled George Washington declaring a day of Thanksgiving for his troops in the Revolutionary War, Abraham Lincoln celebrating Thanksgiving during the Civil War, and the Pilgrims celebrating Thanksgiving after their first hard year in America.<\/p>\n<p>The president noted that just like the pilgrims expressed gratitude to the Wampanoag American Indians for helping them through their first year, Americans should be grateful to those who helped them through the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Biden specifically cited farmworkers and frontline workers for thanks, noting \u201cmany of whom are immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18896778\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236758680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18896778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236758680-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden is seen on the tarmac after stepping off Air Force One upon arrival at Nantucket Memorial Airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts on November 23, 2021. Biden is in Nantucket to spend the Thanksgiving holiday. (MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18896794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236757097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18896794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236757097-1024x750-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.S. President Joe Biden (C) speaks with an employee after helping assemble Thanksgiving meal kits at the DC Central Kitchen in Washington, DC,&nbsp; on November 23, 2021. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also signaled out teachers, parents, and health care workers for praise, as well as \u201cthe researchers and scientists\u201d who helped develop the coronavirus vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, we are grateful for our troops serving far from home, keeping us safe and defending our values,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Biden described Thanksgiving as a \u201ccherished time\u201d with \u201csacred rituals\u201d with his family, including \u201cthrowing the football, preparing family recipes, lighting candles, and setting the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many Americans, this Thanksgiving will be the first time gathering with loved ones in person since the start of the pandemic \u2014 a time of full tables and full hearts,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he would be close to those who lost loved ones to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we celebrate, we will also be thinking of the many families feeling the pain of an empty chair at the Thanksgiving table,\u201d he wrote. \u201cYou are not alone, and our Nation stands with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden issued a proclamation for Thanksgiving, noting Americans were grateful during the coronavirus pandemic. \u201cThanksgiving provides us with a time to reflect on our many blessings \u2014 from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}