{"id":3746,"date":"2014-11-26T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2024-12-21T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T17:08:26","slug":"how-the-chicken-built-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/content\/how-the-chicken-built-america\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Chicken Built America."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3747\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/How-the-Chicken-Built-America.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3747\" class=\"wp-image-3747 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlawler.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/How-the-Chicken-Built-America.jpg\" alt=\"How-the-Chicken-Built-America\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Paul Rogers, courtesy of nytimes.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>THIS season millions of Americans will celebrate with turkey on the table. The turkey is, after all, the native North American animal that Benjamin Franklin considered \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatseal.com\/symbols\/turkey.html\">a much more respectable bird<\/a>\u201d than the scavenging bald eagle. 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