{"id":18837,"date":"2010-05-11T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18837"},"modified":"2010-05-11T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:19:41","slug":"it-sucks-to-be-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18837","title":{"rendered":"It Sucks To Be Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All these great rabbis are marrying off their daughters.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am, 43 years old, almost 44, and I am still unmarried.<\/p>\n<p>Is it not a tradition in Jewish life to marry off the most worthy daughters to the greatest Torah scholars? Yet because my scholarship is revealed on a blog, I&#8217;m not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the message I am getting.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh, I didn&#8217;t even get an invite to the wedding. And I hear the rabbi is giving out tefillin as gifts to all male guests. <\/p>\n<p>What a union I&#8217;d make for some rabbi&#8217;s daughter. What interesting conversations we&#8217;d have around the Shabbos table. What a meeting of the minds.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I knew what love was. What did I know. Those days are gone forever. I should just let them go and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PS. I&#8217;ve concluded that blogging is a mental illness, when people get well, they don&#8217;t blog so much. I&#8217;ve been getting well of late, hence not so much blogging and personal destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All these great rabbis are marrying off their daughters. And here I am, 43 years old, almost 44, and I am still unmarried. Is it not a tradition in Jewish life to marry off the most worthy daughters to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18837\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[780,22140,12280,1201,9943],"class_list":["post-18837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-jewish-life","tag-male-guests","tag-shabbos-table","tag-tefillin","tag-torah-scholars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837","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=18837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18843,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18837\/revisions\/18843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}