{"id":107132,"date":"2016-09-19T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107132"},"modified":"2016-09-19T08:10:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:10:46","slug":"hamilton-creator-lin-manuel-miranda-stars-in-new-video-for-yeshiva-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107132","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hamilton\u2019 creator Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in new video \u2014 for Yeshiva University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/culture\/article\/hamilton_creator_lin_manuel_miranda_stars_in_new_video_for_yeshiva_universi\">Jewish Journal<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQnrY_sLb6g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeshiva University is a radiating force that is shaping our world,\u201d Miranda says over footage of famous Jews, like Joe Lieberman and Alan Dershowitz, who have connections to the school.<br \/>\nBut Miranda, who is Puerto Rican and not Jewish, has connections to the school, too. He grew up in Washington Heights \u2014 where the main Y.U. campus is located, and which served as the setting for his first hit, \u201cIn the Heights\u201d \u2014 and his mother is an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (which was, until earlier this year, part of Y.U.). Miranda has given guest lectures there and was given an honorary doctorate from the school in 2009, when he was 29  \u2014 making him the youngest ever to receive that honor from the university.<br \/>\nOf course, growing up in Washington Heights left him with plenty of Jewish connections outside of Y.U. He has previously said that all of his elementary school friends were Jewish and that he paid his rent before making it big by performing at bar mitzvahs. Then there\u2019s his love for \u201cFiddler on the Roof,\u201d which he has said heavily influenced \u201cIn the Heights.\u201d He even surprised his wife at their wedding by singing \u201cTo Life (L\u2019Chaim),\u201d an upbeat tune from \u201cFiddler.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish Journal: \u201cYeshiva University is a radiating force that is shaping our world,\u201d Miranda says over footage of famous Jews, like Joe Lieberman and Alan Dershowitz, who have connections to the school. But Miranda, who is Puerto Rican and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=107132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yeshiva-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107133,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107132\/revisions\/107133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}