{"id":207,"date":"2008-11-27T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-11-22T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T02:50:05","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving To The Geeks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Thanksgiving to all of you here in the United States!\u00a0 For my international readers&#8230; sorry, our country is closed today for massive turkey consumption and tryptophan-induced comas.\u00a0 Come back tomorrow for the craziest shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Continuing my passion for Norman Rockwell&#8230; here is his 1943 &#8220;Freedom from Want&#8221; image representing Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/thanksgiving1.jpg\" alt=\"Normal Rockwell's Thanksgiving\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On a geekier note, here is the cover of the Justice Society of America Thanksgiving celebration from 2003.\u00a0 In this issue the JSA and JLA get together for Thanksgiving dinner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/thanksgiving2.jpg\" alt=\"JSA's Thanksgiving\" width=\"400\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And now for your geek WTF moment&#8230; Here is the cover of the upcoming Fantastic Four #564.\u00a0 First, this cover is obviously an homage to Rockwell&#8217;s Thanksgiving image, however, they are celebrating Christmas on the cover.\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 Second, this Christmas-themed issue is being released in February 2009.\u00a0 Double huh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whatever, Marvel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/thanksgiving3.jpg\" alt=\"Fantastic Four's Christmas?!?!\" width=\"400\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-207\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-207\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-207\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving-to-the-geeks\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all of you here in the United States!\u00a0 For my international readers&#8230; 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