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When Stewart told a talkshow she had cancelled Thanksgiving, she prompted panic. Her clarification is a lesson in the art of excusesMartha Stewart, the queen of hospitality, has issued a retraction of her recent declaration on The Kelly Clarkson Show that she had “cancelled Thanksgiving” this year. In the US, it seems to have been an event as apocalypse-adjacent as the ravens leaving the Tower of London, causing widespread panic.Her retraction, issued via a lengthy Instagram statement, was preposterously, wonderfully grand. I love every syllable. She did not cancel Thanksgiving, she wrote; she called off her own party “due to guest cancellations”. (I don’t know how this phrase manages to convey Arctic-level frosty disapproval at flaking on her in so few innocuous words, but it does.) Continue reading...