{"id":218,"date":"2007-04-11T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2007-12-09T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:15:08","slug":"rabbinic-foolishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Rabbinic Foolishness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stars-David-Prominent-About-Jewish\/dp\/0767916123\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-6212878-1911346?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1176308015&amp;sr=8-1\">Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish<\/a>:  Broadway producer\/director Harold Prince says:  &quot;When Fiddler on the Roof opened, Jerry Robbins gave his first teacher &#8212; an old, old man &#8212; the role of the rabbi. And he was a kind of befuddled, humorous, adorable character and Jerry loved him. The board of rabbis didn&#8217;t. They sent me a telegram threatening to boycott the show if we didn&#8217;t change that character.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish: Broadway producer\/director Harold Prince says: &quot;When Fiddler on the Roof opened, Jerry Robbins gave his first teacher &#8212; an old, old man &#8212; the role of the rabbi. And he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=218\">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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}