{"id":1430,"date":"2018-11-23T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:28:54","slug":"evidence-unearthed-pilgrims-indians-argued-politics-at-first-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Evidence unearthed: Pilgrims &#038; Indians argued politics at first Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c212bd200b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thanksgiving arguments\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c212bd200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c212bd200b-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Thanksgiving arguments\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/new-documents-confirm-pilgrims-indians-argued-about-politics-over-thanksgiving-dinner\">\u201cApparently, Uncle Charles was asked to eat at the kids\u2019 table after a tirade about how real patriots need to support King James I, and several Wampanoag Indians and younger Puritans alike wouldn\u2019t stop talking about their participation in a string of violent protests throughout the colonies,\u201d Dr. Gary Etherton, a Smithsonian researcher said Tuesday. \u201cThey called themselves \u2018the Resistance\u2019 for some reason.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The newly discovered journal seems to indicate that just after giving thanks for the meal, one Pilgrim from England drank too much mead and began to rant about \u201cmaking the colonies great again,\u201d kicking off several hours of hostile glances, passive-aggressive remarks, and flat-out argumentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Arguments centered around \u201ccommon sense musket control\u201d raged as one Pilgrim mother complained about the large quantity of wheellock muskets left lying around without observing proper gun safety rules, while at the other end of the table, a fistfight broke out over a Ten Commandment display in front of the Plymouth General Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cApparently, Uncle Charles was asked to eat at the kids\u2019 table after a tirade about how real patriots need to support King James I, and several Wampanoag Indians and younger Puritans alike wouldn\u2019t stop talking about their participation in a string of violent protests throughout the colonies,\u201d Dr. Gary Etherton, a Smithsonian researcher said Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}