{"id":153940,"date":"2024-01-13T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T02:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153940"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T02:07:32","slug":"the-prager-christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153940","title":{"rendered":"The Prager Christmas Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D5MjNKR4wfc?si=qH7OK30BcUvdu2gW&#038;t=2940\">Dec. 25, 2023<\/a>, Julie Hartman asked Dennis: &#8220;What do you do to celebrate Christmas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: &#8220;On Christmas day, I don&#8217;t listen to classical music. I listen to Christmas music. I revel in the ambience of the day. My wife converted to Judaism. She is as Jewish as I am from the perspective of Judaism, but she comes from a Christian home and we have all of her family over and we have a big Christmas dinner, which I love. I even wear my kipa at the dinner. It&#8217;s my way of both reminding everyone that it is the Jew in your family who&#39;s enjoying this with you, and while it is not my holy day, it is their holy day. I open up with a prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 25, 2023, Julie Hartman asked Dennis: &#8220;What do you do to celebrate Christmas?&#8221; Dennis: &#8220;On Christmas day, I don&#8217;t listen to classical music. I listen to Christmas music. I revel in the ambience of the day. My wife converted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153940\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153940","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=153940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153942,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153940\/revisions\/153942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}