{"id":1258,"date":"2009-11-26T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2009-11-26T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T18:05:00","slug":"its-thanksgiving-put-your-mask-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"It’s Thanksgiving-Put Your Mask On"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a long-standing interest in masks and masked ritual, going back to when I helped Evan John Jones with Sacred Mask Sacred Dance<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

So consider than on the East Coast a century ago, Thanksgiving (or at least the last Thursday in November), rather than Halloween, was the time for masking and trick-or-treating.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving itself was a sort of irregular, off-and-on holiday until it was deliberately fixed to mark the start of the Christmas shopping season during Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a long-standing interest in masks and masked ritual, going back to when I helped Evan John Jones with Sacred Mask Sacred Dance. So consider than on the East Coast a century ago, Thanksgiving (or at least the last Thursday in November), rather than Halloween, was the time for masking and trick-or-treating. Thanksgiving itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,66,99,98],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-halloween","tag-masks","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ki","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2031,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2031","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":0},"title":"More Pagan than the Pagans","author":"Chas S. 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That's a pity because both invoke an odd,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"animals\"","block_context":{"text":"animals","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=animals"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-_CtWSYbQ3kQ\/UpMeipWWpkI\/AAAAAAAACKM\/p1w1eedfN7I\/s320\/Scary%2Bmask.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1246,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1246","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":3},"title":"Organizing Halloween Ritual","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I said that I was not going to post any more Halloween items. I take that back. Here is one more. One decision we've made is to rebuff curious friends who ask to join our Halloween rituals. It seems like half the people I know want to be pagan on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Halloween\"","block_context":{"text":"Halloween","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=halloween"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":956,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=956","url_meta":{"origin":1258,"position":4},"title":"Varieties of Thanksgiving Day","author":"Chas S. 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