{"id":46527,"date":"2012-09-25T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46527"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T04:20:31","slug":"making-jews-look-good-since-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=46527","title":{"rendered":"Making Jews Look Good Since 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend at work tells her 41 yo son about me: &#8220;There&#8217;s this kid a few years older than you with a cherubic Anglican face who&#8217;s an Orthodox Jew.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Did he convert?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes. He wears his beanie every day and his underwear hanging out with his tassles showing and he swings them like some burlesque babe and says his ancestors went through Auschwitz so that he could wear his tassles out. 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