{"id":118504,"date":"2017-11-23T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=118504"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:42:04","slug":"hale-and-hearty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/23\/hale-and-hearty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hale and Hearty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><i>The Paris Review staff is off in a\u00a0tryptophan-induced haze,\u00a0so\u00a0we&#8217;re reposting some of our favorite Thanksgiving pieces. Enjoy your holiday!<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Thanksgiving.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Thanksgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Thanksgiving.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Thanksgiving-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the many things for which I will give thanks this Thursday, foremost is the fact that I am not in charge of Thanksgiving dinner. Instead I\u2019ll be helping my mother in her kitchen, as she helped me in mine last year. It isn\u2019t that I dislike cooking, or even that I feed a real crowd; I cook every day, usually with pleasure, and we don\u2019t pull many extra chairs up to the table for the holiday. But sometime after the second pie has been baked and the turkey is in the oven and half the vegetables are ready but there is still so much to make, and the table not even set, I just want to sneak away without finishing up.<\/p>\n<p>How great a disappointment I would have been to Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who led the campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. When Hale was thirty-four and the year was 1822, her husband died, leaving her with five children. Did she allow despair to overcome her stout Yankee heart? Never! She supported her family with that reliable moneymaker,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2002\/10\/24\" target=\"_blank\">poesy<\/a>, before publishing a best-selling novel, and eventually going on to become the editor of the most influential women\u2019s magazine in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/hale-and-hearty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris Review staff is off in a\u00a0tryptophan-induced haze,\u00a0so\u00a0we&#8217;re reposting some of our favorite Thanksgiving pieces. Enjoy your holiday! &nbsp; Among the many things for which I will give thanks this Thursday, foremost is the fact that I am not in charge of Thanksgiving dinner. 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