{"id":18029,"date":"2010-04-08T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18029"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:37:36","slug":"stand-and-deliver-torah-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18029","title":{"rendered":"Stand And Deliver Torah Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How come there&#8217;s all this hoopla about Hispanic math teacher Jaime Escalante (hero of the film <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaime_Escalante\">Stand and Deliver<\/a><\/em>) and yet we never remember Feivel Himmelfarb, a math teacher in New York in the late 19th century who inspired a group of high school Jewish students to leave their gangs, to stop dealing dope, and to instead pass AP Calculus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How come there&#8217;s all this hoopla about Hispanic math teacher Jaime Escalante (hero of the film Stand and Deliver) and yet we never remember Feivel Himmelfarb, a math teacher in New York in the late 19th century who inspired a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18029\">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":[43],"tags":[21828,21827,2004,21829,21830],"class_list":["post-18029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","tag-ap-calculus","tag-jaime-escalante","tag-jewish-students","tag-math-teacher","tag-stand-and-deliver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029","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=18029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18030,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18029\/revisions\/18030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}