{"id":55166,"date":"2013-11-30T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=55166"},"modified":"2013-11-30T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T03:30:19","slug":"cher-says-thanksgiving-celebrates-a-great-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=55166","title":{"rendered":"Cher Says Thanksgiving Celebrates &#8216;a Great Crime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cher-late-show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-55162\" alt=\"\u0547\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cher-late-show.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cher-late-show.jpg 584w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cher-late-show-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aceshowbiz.com\/celebrity\/cher\/\">Cher<\/a> doesn&#8217;t celebrate Thanksgiving. In fact, the 67-year-old singer\/songwriter blasts the holiday tradition on Twitter, &#8220;I DON&#8217;T! 4 me &amp; my Family,it&#8217;s a day,When every1 is free 4Diner &amp; a movie,Not 2 celebrate the beginning of a GREAT Crime.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen one of her followers asked her to elaborate what she meant with the &#8220;crime,&#8221; the mother of two quickly explained, &#8220;Stealing Land,from a ppl,Who believed,Owning LAND Was LIke Owning SKY! We gave them Blankets laced w\/Smallpox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cher whose real name is Cherilyn Sarkisian has Cherokee ancestry from her mother&#8217;s side. She apparently believes Thanksgiving celebrates the day the settlers stole from Native Americans who had no concept of property and infected them with smallpox.<\/p>\n<p>Despite her opposition to the holiday, Cher wished her friends a happy day on November 28. &#8220;2 My Crew, I Hope Tomm.is a Glorious day 4 ALL OF U. Remember..A Kind Word,Gesture,Or Compliment,can make ANY1&#8217;S DAY! THANX4BeingThere4Me,&#8221; so she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cher doesn&#8217;t celebrate Thanksgiving. In fact, the 67-year-old singer\/songwriter blasts the holiday tradition on Twitter,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,143,137],"tags":[4481,4482],"class_list":["post-55166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-cher","tag-thanksgiving-celebrate","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}