{"id":114107,"date":"2017-05-06T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T03:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114107"},"modified":"2023-08-26T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T01:07:49","slug":"where-is-your-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114107","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Your Happy Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mexican friend says Dodger Stadium is her happy place. She goes there and she always feels happy.<\/p>\n<p>I want to say that for Jews, synagogue is their happy place. They go there and they always feel happy. But I think this is only true for a small number of Jews. Orthodox Jews tend to go to shul every day and you can&#8217;t expect a place you go to every day to always make you feel happy. I wonder if synagogue is a happy place for a higher percentage of non-Orthodox Jews than Orthodox Jews because non-Orthodox Jews go to synagogue less frequently and therefore it might be a more intense and uplifting experience. <\/p>\n<p>For other Jews, going to a bank might be their happy place.<\/p>\n<p>For some people, going to a party or a game or a club or a barbershop might be their happy place.<\/p>\n<p>For the intellectually-inclined, going to a library might be their happy place.<\/p>\n<p>For many Australians, going to the race track or a bookie or a bar is their happy place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mexican friend says Dodger Stadium is her happy place. She goes there and she always feels happy. I want to say that for Jews, synagogue is their happy place. They go there and they always feel happy. But I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114107\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114107","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=114107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150462,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114107\/revisions\/150462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}