{"id":45345,"date":"2025-11-28T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45345"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:22:41","slug":"thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-informs-them-of-native-american-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-informs-them-of-native-american-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/292dc9604486ecc565f8a4beb3f42d03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: November 25, 2021 (TheOnion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUDBURY, MA\u2014Their forks clattering to the table mere moments after the 16-year-old\u2019s sudden announcement, Thanksgiving guests at the Ross family dinner reportedly froze in disbelief Thursday after teenage son Ryan informed them of the genocide of Native Americans. \u201cNo, no, it can\u2019t be! Not my precious holiday!\u201d said mother Alexandra Ross, 47, one of several dumbfounded family members who at first listened in rapt amazement to the high school junior\u2019s statement that the first Thanksgiving was nothing like what was taught in schools before breaking the silence by spitting out their mashed potatoes and turkey into their napkins and screaming at the top of their lungs. \u201cThis changes everything! Everything! What were we doing here gathered with your grandmother on a terrible day like this? Oh God, burn the tablecloth! Burn the little pilgrim figurine! Burn it all down!\u201d At press time, family patriarch Jim Ross had proclaimed that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t stand the horrible truth\u201d before grabbing the carving knife and slitting his own throat from ear to ear in front of his stunned teenage son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: November 25, 2021 (TheOnion.com) SUDBURY, MA\u2014Their forks clattering to the table mere moments after the 16-year-old\u2019s sudden announcement, Thanksgiving guests at the Ross family dinner reportedly froze in disbelief Thursday after teenage son Ryan informed them of the genocide of Native Americans. \u201cNo, no, it can\u2019t be! Not my&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-informs-them-of-native-american-genocide\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45346,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45345\/revisions\/45346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}