{"id":22236,"date":"2010-08-07T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22236"},"modified":"2010-08-08T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:22:31","slug":"the-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22236","title":{"rendered":"The Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hearing stories about getting close to the rebbe and it made me think that I never experienced crushes as a goy. I grew up a Protestant and Protestants don&#8217;t tend to press together tightly. We were more restrained. Jews don&#8217;t seem to have these restraints. They&#8217;re much closer with each other and don&#8217;t mind pushing and shoving to get what they want.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff emails: &#8220;What are you talking about? Have you never ridden a subway, gone anywhere in Tokyo, NYC or India, or gone to a rock concert of any sort other than Air Supply? &#8220;Jews&#8221; did not invent moshing, crowds, pushing or shoving. You need to stop reading Der Stuermer and have a life (though as you point out in the NY piece, you might be getting too old for much of it).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hearing stories about getting close to the rebbe and it made me think that I never experienced crushes as a goy. I grew up a Protestant and Protestants don&#8217;t tend to press together tightly. We were more restrained. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22236\">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":[29,21],"tags":[23176,3392,6608,4118,23177],"class_list":["post-22236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews","category-personal","tag-der-stuermer","tag-goy","tag-protestants","tag-rebbe","tag-restraints"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236","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=22236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22243,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22236\/revisions\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}