{"id":44738,"date":"2012-07-04T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44738"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T21:59:00","slug":"should-american-jews-celebrate-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44738","title":{"rendered":"Should American Jews Celebrate The Fourth Of July?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asks: &#8220;May a torah jew celebrate goyishe holidays like the fourth of July?&#8221; Why do we frum yidden need goyisha holidays?<br \/>\nTo even ask the question betrays a mindset so far from Torah. It&#8217;s like asking if a frum woman can wear pants while skiing. Why would a frum woman want to ski? Is there not enough in Artscroll to keep her happy?<\/p>\n<p>A friend says: We need to make a show of following them so that the goyim don&#8217;t know any different about us.<br \/>\nTo let them know more is akin to teaching a monkey to eat with a knife and fork.  It might be possible, but why would you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asks: &#8220;May a torah jew celebrate goyishe holidays like the fourth of July?&#8221; Why do we frum yidden need goyisha holidays? To even ask the question betrays a mindset so far from Torah. It&#8217;s like asking if a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44738\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738","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=44738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44739,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738\/revisions\/44739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}