{"id":11364,"date":"2009-10-02T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2009-10-02T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T16:20:10","slug":"a-serious-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11364","title":{"rendered":"A Serious Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2009\/10\/01\/entertainment\/e050338D10.DTL\">AP reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, &quot;A Serious Man,&quot; from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>In one scene, a rabbi giving a eulogy refers to the deceased as a serious man. Later, the Coens&#8217; desperate hero calls himself a serious man as he tries to gain an audience with his synagogue&#8217;s elusive senior rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase is the brothers&#8217; take on the Yiddish word mensch, an upright man, someone of substance and decency.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2009\/10\/01\/entertainment\/e050338D10.DTL#ixzz0SnAmmHLi\">http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2009\/10\/01\/entertainment\/e050338D10.DTL#ixzz0SnAmmHLi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP reports: Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, &quot;A Serious Man,&quot; from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community. In one scene, a rabbi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5533,19190,2061,19188,19191,19189],"class_list":["post-11364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-ap-reports","tag-ethan-coen","tag-jewish-community","tag-joel-and-ethan-coen","tag-upright-man","tag-yiddish-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","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=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11378,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions\/11378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}