{"id":21474,"date":"2010-07-21T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21474"},"modified":"2010-07-21T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T18:49:31","slug":"making-a-new-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21474","title":{"rendered":"Making A New Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2005 lecture on Deut. 30, Dennis Prager says: &#8220;A lot of people wonder why there is so much repetition [in the Torah]. The reason is pedagogic. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I make a new point [on the radio], I get no calls. It is as if I didn&#8217;t say anything. When I will say it for about the fifth time, I&#8217;ll start getting emails and calls. It might be the most brilliant point in the world, but if I make it once, it&#8217;s as if I never said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2005 lecture on Deut. 30, Dennis Prager says: &#8220;A lot of people wonder why there is so much repetition [in the Torah]. The reason is pedagogic. &#8220;When I make a new point [on the radio], I get no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21474\">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":[4],"tags":[22944,29761,22902,22945,22946],"class_list":["post-21474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-brilliant-point","tag-dennis-prager","tag-deut","tag-fifth-time","tag-repetition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474","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=21474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21475,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions\/21475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}