{"id":51942,"date":"2014-01-14T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51942"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T10:47:26","slug":"staring-death-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51942","title":{"rendered":"Staring Death In The Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend: &#8220;I&#8217;m not getting stuff done right, I&#8217;m a little distracted.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;That&#8217;s understandable considering you are staring death in the face.&#8221;<br \/>\nFriend: &#8220;That&#8217;s not as bad as staring you in the face.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;We&#8217;ll always remember you firing off faxes and emails of complaint until your last breath, trying to haggle with death, being the quintessential Jew to your last moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Wisdom from the rebbetzin: &#8220;I am sure that once married, you&#8217;d treat your wife 4-5 points better than the average Muslim. But the Muslims have a brain to know when to exercise his right to remain silent. Or to use his privacy settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Why don&#8217;t Jews call the Chinese and Japanese goyim? Why are only white goyim called goyim? I&#8217;m talking about social reality, not theory. A friend: &#8220;Goyim refers to the dominant culture, so faces of minorities are less likely to pop up if you say that word.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend: &#8220;I&#8217;m not getting stuff done right, I&#8217;m a little distracted.&#8221; Luke: &#8220;That&#8217;s understandable considering you are staring death in the face.&#8221; Friend: &#8220;That&#8217;s not as bad as staring you in the face.&#8221; Luke: &#8220;We&#8217;ll always remember you firing off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51942\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942","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=51942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152471,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51942\/revisions\/152471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}