{"id":3731,"date":"2003-11-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/22\/2003-11-22-thanksgiving-minus-the-turkey\/"},"modified":"2003-11-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T12:00:00","slug":"2003-11-22-thanksgiving-minus-the-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/22\/2003-11-22-thanksgiving-minus-the-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Minus the Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tofurky.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>USA, November 22, 2003: Hindus in America are about to be faced with Thanksgiving and its traditional turkey feast. It&#8217;s not a Hindu holiday, of course, there is no obligation to celebrate and the turkeys would appreciate it if you didn&#8217;t. However, for those who by choice or social obligation find it necessary, there is a vegetarian alternative, several in fact, of which the most established in Tofurky (&#8220;source&#8221;). Yes, that&#8217;s a turkey-shaped tofu product, a marvel of food engineering, complete with the Thanksgiving standards of gravy, wild rice, cranberry-apple potato dumplings, etc. There&#8217;s even an artificial &#8220;wishbone&#8221; (the forked furcula bone of a bird) to fulfill a Thanksgiving custom, one that actually goes back to Roman times. Two people make a wish, then pull opposite sides of this bone until it breaks, with the one getting the larger piece having his wish fulfilled. <\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceUSA, November 22, 2003: Hindus in America are about to be faced with Thanksgiving and its traditional turkey feast. It&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}