{"id":96,"date":"2006-11-22T23:32:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T23:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:33:54","slug":"turkey-day-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Day stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"US Census Press Releases\" href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/Press-Release\/www\/releases\/archives\/facts_for_features_special_editions\/007643.html\">Thanksgiving Day facts, courtesy of the Census Bureau<\/a><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re actually interesting.  A sample:<br \/>\nMinnesota is expected to produce 45 million turkeys this year.<br \/>\nThere are three places in the US with &#8220;Turkey&#8221; in their name: Turkey, TX (pop. 492), Turkey Creek, LA (pop. 357), and Turkey, NC (pop. 269).<br \/>\n3 million tons of corn will be produced and processed this year in the U.S.  (Obviously, not all of it is eaten on Thanksgiving.)<br \/>\nThe average American ate 13.4 pounds of turkey in 2004, and 4.7 pounds of sweet potatoes\/potatos (mmmm).  Again, not all at Thanksgiving, but you can imagine it accounts for a large part of it.<br \/>\nSo, chew on that.  Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Day facts, courtesy of the Census Bureau They&#8217;re actually interesting. A sample: Minnesota is expected to produce 45 million turkeys this year. There are three places in the US with &#8220;Turkey&#8221; in their name: Turkey, TX (pop. 492), Turkey Creek, LA (pop. 357), and Turkey, NC (pop. 269). 3 million tons of corn will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-random-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}