{"id":114505,"date":"2017-05-20T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114505"},"modified":"2017-05-21T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T14:00:57","slug":"a-place-to-call-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114505","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Place To Call Home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling a tad homesick, I subscribed to Acorn TV on Amazon to watch this <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/08\/watching\/what-to-watch-european-tv-streaming.html\">Australian soap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/08\/watching\/what-to-watch-european-tv-streaming.html\">NYT<\/a>: &#8220;Designed to satisfy your sprawling-period-saga hunger in the absence of \u201cDownton Abbey,\u201d this 1950s Australian melodrama is at four seasons and counting. It\u2019s a solid, smart soap starring the ubiquitous (in Australia) Marta Dusseldorp as a woman who comes home after a liberating sojourn in Paris and has to reacclimate to the constraints of rural New South Wales. Illicit romance, noble suffering, the usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lead character is rejected by her mother for converting to Judaism. She later explains in a job interview that she is &#8220;Jewish by faith.&#8221; It&#8217;s the most absurd thing I&#8217;ve ever heard. Jews are a tribe. We can pose as a religion if that&#8217;s what the goyim need to hear, and we can call ourselves a faith if we like, just as a man in modern America can call himself a woman. <\/p>\n<p>Two episodes into the show and there&#8217;s no sign she&#8217;s remotely observant of Jewish law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling a tad homesick, I subscribed to Acorn TV on Amazon to watch this Australian soap. NYT: &#8220;Designed to satisfy your sprawling-period-saga hunger in the absence of \u201cDownton Abbey,\u201d this 1950s Australian melodrama is at four seasons and counting. It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114505\">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":[182,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505","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=114505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114512,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114505\/revisions\/114512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}