{"id":43914,"date":"2012-05-31T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43914"},"modified":"2012-05-31T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:32:53","slug":"jews-in-downtown-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43914","title":{"rendered":"Jews In Downtown Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogdowntown.com\/2012\/05\/6787-the-unique-breed-of-downtown-jews\">From KPCC<\/a>: Someone who does classify himself is Luke Ford, 46, who converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1993 after being raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia. The infamous blogger  lives in the Pico-Robertson district that\u2019s home to a myriad of Orthodox synagogues and kosher restaurants and markets.<\/p>\n<p>While Ford acknowledged that Greenwald is right to open his doors to every Jew, he said it would be very difficult to live a strict, Orthodox lifestyle Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere really isn\u2019t an observant community in Downtown Los Angeles,\u201d Ford said. \u201cJews who want to take Judaism seriously are not going to be able to live in Downtown Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From KPCC: Someone who does classify himself is Luke Ford, 46, who converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1993 after being raised as a Seventh-Day Adventist in Australia. The infamous blogger lives in the Pico-Robertson district that\u2019s home to a myriad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43914\">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":[50,18,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-orthodoxy","category-picorobertson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43914","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=43914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}