{"id":2856,"date":"2012-12-04T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2012-12-04T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:17:03","slug":"news-brief-auip-celebrated-thanksgiving-with-ex-pats-and-kiwis-in-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/news-brief-auip-celebrated-thanksgiving-with-ex-pats-and-kiwis-in-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: AUIP celebrated Thanksgiving with ex-pats and Kiwis in attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course Thanksgiving isn\u2019t complete without turkey, stuffing and an abundance of good times, but our team\u2019s feast included a few non-traditional elements as well.<\/p>\n

With our entire team<\/a>, spouses and a few friends gathered at Managing Director Laura<\/a>\u2019s home, the head count left Americans as the minority, despite the holiday at hand. Six Americans (mainly ex-pats), ten Kiwis, an Argentine and even one Pom<\/a> all joined in the festive spirit to celebrate.<\/p>\n

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One of our Thanksgiving turkeys carved and ready for eating<\/p><\/div>\n

In true Thanksgiving fashion, each individual or couple brought a dish to share. The usual suspects of cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans and salads all arrived. Three pies also held a place in the food array: pumpkin, pecan and strawberry rhubarb. Impressively, one staffer even planned ahead and bought pumpkin puree in the States earlier this year so as to avoid the $15 puree purchased last year Down Under<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After devouring two turkeys, a ham and too many side dishes, everyone found a comfy spot in the lounge room to chat away the afternoon. Amazingly, we even found the Texas versus TCU Thanksgiving game <\/a>on satellite television, not that any Kiwis were substantially interested in watching.<\/p>\n

We hope your Thanksgiving proved equally as enjoyable. Did you have an abundance of nationalities in attendance as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course Thanksgiving isn\u2019t complete without turkey, stuffing and an abundance of good times, but our team\u2019s feast included a few non-traditional elements as well. With our entire team, spouses and a few friends gathered at Managing Director Laura\u2019s home, the head count left Americans as the minority, despite the holiday at hand. Six Americans (mainly ex-pats), ten Kiwis, an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}