{"id":59730,"date":"2014-11-05T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59730"},"modified":"2014-11-05T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:32:15","slug":"how-often-do-you-see-orthodox-jews-strolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59730","title":{"rendered":"How Often Do You See Orthodox Jews Strolling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times journalist Joseph Berger writes in his book <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Pious-Ones-Hasidim-Battles\/dp\/0062123343\">The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, in what looks like a whimsical scene out of a Truffaut movie, a Hasid wheels by on a beat-up bicycle, balancing his round black hat on his head. But he is not taking a leisurely ride or training for a triathlon. Instead he has the frenzied look of someone on an urgent errand.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, no one is strolling, dawdling, loitering. The walks are clipped, fevered; nothing is frivolous or indolent about anyone&#8217;s gait. Everyone is hurrying to do the work of the Creator&#8230; There is much to squeeze in. In addition to work or schooling, there needs to be a time and place for prayer, study and the fulfillment of the various rituals that define the week and the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times journalist Joseph Berger writes in his book The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America: Suddenly, in what looks like a whimsical scene out of a Truffaut movie, a Hasid wheels by on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59730\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730","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=59730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59735,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59730\/revisions\/59735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}