
{"id":3129,"date":"2011-11-21T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2014-11-06T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T19:26:21","slug":"turkey-notes-a-four-line-davenport-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/11\/21\/turkey-notes-a-four-line-davenport-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Notes: a four-line Davenport tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving Week!*<\/p>\n<p>Some of our readers already know about The Turkey Note tradition, either because your family writes them, your children write them in school, <em>you <\/em>make children write them in school, or you caught our previous posts about them.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not among those readers in the know, our best explanation is <a title=\"Turkey Notes\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=344\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And this year&#8217;s best staff efforts are here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey clumsy<br \/>\nTurkey adroit<br \/>\nCheer for the Packers<br \/>\nTo beat Detroit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Turkey Red<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Turkey White<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Turkey didn&#8217;t get one bite!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey run,<br \/>\nTurkey flop.<br \/>\nTurkey up early,<br \/>\nSo he can shop!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turkey purple,<br \/>\nTurkey orange,<br \/>\nTurkey says,<br \/>\n . . . What rhymes with orange?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Turkey-Note.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/11\/21\/turkey-notes-a-four-line-davenport-tradition\/turkey-note\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Turkey-Note.jpg?fit=168%2C218&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"168,218\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Turkey Note!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Turkey-Note.jpg?fit=168%2C218&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3134\" title=\"Turkey Note!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Turkey-Note.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Turkey Me<br \/>\nTurkey You<br \/>\nLeftovers in sandwiches<br \/>\nAnd turkey stew!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Turkey lemon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Turkey yellow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jazzy turkey<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Plays the cello<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey Pepsi<br \/>\nTurkey Coke<br \/>\nOur family likes its turkey smoked!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turkey silver<br \/>\nTurkey copper<br \/>\nBargain turkey<br \/>\nBlack Friday shopper<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey lime<br \/>\nTurkey mint<br \/>\nTurkey&#8217;s book is out of print<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Turkey First<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Turkey Last<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Turkey suggests we all just fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turkey blue<br \/>\nTurkey red<br \/>\nTurkey wishes he was back in bed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why not share the Turkey Joy and make up your own Notes?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You&#8217;re invited to share your best (or worst) ones in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p>* Or as we like to call it in Special Collections, Chasing Down Co-Workers and Nagging Them Until They Write Their Annual Turkey Notes Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving Week!* Some of our readers already know about The Turkey Note tradition, either because your family writes them, your children write them in school, you make children write them in school, or you caught our previous posts about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2011\/11\/21\/turkey-notes-a-four-line-davenport-tradition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1410,190,42],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-local-history","tag-thanksgiving-day","tag-turkey-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-Ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}