{"id":17754,"date":"2010-03-18T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T00:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T01:12:45","slug":"tikkun-olam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17754","title":{"rendered":"Tikkun Olam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m checking out of Ralphs, wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit out as always, this old lady in pants says to me, &#8220;Do you believe in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tikkun_olam\"><em>tikkun olam<\/em><\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then why are you using these?&#8221; she says, and points to the paper bags holding my groceries.<\/p>\n<p>I give her a dismissive wave.<\/p>\n<p>The Gentile checker asks me what the lady is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s giving me a hard time for not bringing my own bags,&#8221; I explain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m checking out of Ralphs, wearing a yarmulke and tzitzit out as always, this old lady in pants says to me, &#8220;Do you believe in tikkun olam?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I say. &#8220;Then why are you using these?&#8221; she says, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17754\">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":[21],"tags":[1026,21699,7526,981,21700],"class_list":["post-17754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-gentile","tag-giving-me-a-hard-time","tag-olam","tag-old-lady","tag-paper-bags"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754","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=17754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17800,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17754\/revisions\/17800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}