{"id":13124,"date":"2009-11-23T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13124"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T17:18:03","slug":"the-fighting-rabbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13124","title":{"rendered":"The Fighting Rabbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3807707,00.html\">YNETNEWS reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Foreman is a deeply religious man, but you couldn&#8217;t tell it from the way he ruthlessly knocks people out in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old rabbi-to-be is the World Boxing Association&#8217;s newest champion and when he&#8217;s not throwing punches in the ring he&#8217;s hitting the books by training to become a rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am able to balance both my fighting and my studies to become a rabbi,&quot; said Foreman, who made boxing history on Saturday by becoming the first Israeli to win a world championship title.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight, Foreman claimed the WBA super welterweight championship with a 12-round unanimous decision over Puerto Rico&#8217;s Daniel Santos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YNETNEWS reports: Yuri Foreman is a deeply religious man, but you couldn&#8217;t tell it from the way he ruthlessly knocks people out in the boxing ring. The 29-year-old rabbi-to-be is the World Boxing Association&#8217;s newest champion and when he&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13124\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[20029,20025,20027,20028,20026,3807],"class_list":["post-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rabbis","tag-boxing-ring","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-miguel-cotto-fight","tag-welterweight-championship","tag-world-boxing-association","tag-yuri-foreman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124","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=13124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}