{"id":23511,"date":"2016-11-20T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2016-11-20T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:11:49","slug":"presidential-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/presidential-pardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/whitetu.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Presidential pardons are common place: Barack Obama has pardoned over 1,000 people during his term as president.\u00a0The most pardons (7,000) \u00a0appear to have come from President Andrew Jackson in the aftermath of the Civil War. But one of the most publicized\u00a0events is the\u00a0pardoning of the White House Thanksgiving turkey\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0it hails from\u00a0Iowa\u00a0in 2016. Two turkeys from the Hawkeye State actually\u00a0are on hand for the ceremony in what&#8217;s akin to extras in a movie. If one is not up to the event the other steps into\u00a0the role.<\/p>\n<p>What happens to the &#8220;extra&#8221;? Both\u00a0turkeys retire to a Virginia Tech teaching farm after their White House duty ends. The average life expectancy of a male turkey is just over 2 years and just over 3 years for females. Domestic turkeys bred for food consumption were not bred to live over one year. Here&#8217;s a little info about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/turkeys.html\">turkeys in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential pardons are common place: Barack Obama has pardoned over 1,000 people during his term as president.\u00a0The most pardons (7,000) \u00a0appear to have come from President Andrew Jackson in the aftermath of the Civil War. But one of the most publicized\u00a0events is the\u00a0pardoning of the White House Thanksgiving turkey\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0it hails from\u00a0Iowa\u00a0in 2016. Two turkeys from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}