{"id":56415,"date":"2014-08-13T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56415"},"modified":"2014-08-13T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:13:36","slug":"showing-off-your-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56415","title":{"rendered":"Showing Off Your Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Jewish kid I know wants to bring in some dorky instrument to his school&#8217;s show and tell day. His dad orders him to bring in this prestigious award he earned and the dad then asks me what I think. &#8220;I would never have brought in an award, too boasty,&#8221; I said. &#8220;But then, I wasn&#8217;t raised Jewish. Jews have an easier time receiving honors and compliments (see <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56124\">Donald Sterling<\/a> for example). WASPs would rather die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dad: &#8220;You think Robin Williams got what he deserved, so good for you. Somebody sent his daughter pictures of his dead body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I burst out laughing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Jewish kid I know wants to bring in some dorky instrument to his school&#8217;s show and tell day. His dad orders him to bring in this prestigious award he earned and the dad then asks me what I think. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56415\">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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56415","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\/56415","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=56415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56419,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions\/56419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}