{"id":44299,"date":"2012-06-12T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44299"},"modified":"2012-06-12T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:35:00","slug":"let-the-jew-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44299","title":{"rendered":"Let The Jew In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving east down Olympic Blvd yesterday afternoon when I noticed a Jew in a yarmulke in a crap car waiting to turn into my lane. I stopped and let him in. If he hadn&#8217;t been wearing a yarmulke, I would not have bothered.<\/p>\n<p>I treat Jews with more care and consideration than I do non-Jews, and I treat Orthodox Jews with more care and consideration than I do non-Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews are part of my intimate community. Everybody else, including Conservative and Reform Jews, are outside of the core of my life. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a holy streak to my life where things matter much more than they do in the secular side of my strivings. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an Orthodox Jew first. That&#8217;s my primary identity. That&#8217;s the group I&#8217;m most concerned about. Conservative Jews can ordain gay rabbis for all I care (I&#8217;m still opposed to that but hardly lose sleep over it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving east down Olympic Blvd yesterday afternoon when I noticed a Jew in a yarmulke in a crap car waiting to turn into my lane. I stopped and let him in. If he hadn&#8217;t been wearing a yarmulke, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44299\">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":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44299","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=44299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}