{"id":208,"date":"2006-11-19T23:15:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T04:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2006-11-19T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T04:18:21","slug":"remembering-the-mayflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/remembering-the-mayflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Mayflower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What was it like to step on the Mayflower<\/a> back in 1620? Such a tiny ship to sail across the huge Atlantic. Would I have been brave enough to step on board and leave the solid ground behind? My relatives were. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 12 steps away from those courageous souls who boarded that ship almost 400 years ago. <\/p>\n

As I look at the list of pilgrims I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m descended from\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it is like discovering I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m part of a myth. The pilgrims and Thanksgiving have taken on mythical significance as a creation story for America. Brushing aside the quaint stories I was told in elementary school, I dig deeper to find the real connection to this moment in time. <\/p>\n

I close my eyes and imagine that I am Remember Allerton, a 6 year old little girl on the Mayflower with her parents, Isaac and Mary Allerton, and her older sister, Mary. <\/p>\n

After a sea voyage of 2,750 miles over 66 days, through fierce storms, sea sickness and a bowed and cracked main beam that made me fear the ship and our lives were in great peril we joyfully sighted land (which is called Cape Cod). <\/p>\n

As my feet touched solid ground for the first time in over two months, I fell to my knees and thanked God for bringing us safely over the vast and furious ocean to my new home. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What would Remember have said she was thankful for that first Thanksgiving? I found this quote from a play entitled “The pilgrim that didn’t care”,<\/p>\n

\nRemember:
\nThough I am young, a little one,
\n I lift my voice in grateful praise
\nFor wondrous works that hath been done
\nTo bless me in so many ways. <\/p>\n

Thus at our feast, I take my part
\nAnd speak from true and thankful heart.
\n…
\nI am most thankful to be alive…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I give thanks to Remember and all my relatives aboard the Mayflower. Their brave choice to live their dreams gives me courage.<\/p>\n

As I approach a new and challenging project at work (code name Lansa) …I think, “What an adventure!” and I look to my fellow shipmates and grin…”Let’s set sail for the new world!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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What was it like to step on the Mayflower<\/a> back in 1620? Such a tiny ship to sail across the huge Atlantic. Would I have been brave enough to step on board and leave the solid ground behind? My relatives were. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 12 steps away from those courageous souls who boarded that ship almost 400 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}