{"id":68077,"date":"2015-04-26T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68077"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T17:33:41","slug":"sunday-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68077","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* My response to the suffering in Nepal is to say some prayers. I hope the Jews are OK.<\/p>\n<p>* I truly intended to hit that 7:30 am Friday meeting on procrastination.<\/p>\n<p>* I was telling this Orthodox rabbi my view on the Afterlife (that we all get what we deserve, experience all the pain and joy we&#8217;ve brought others), and he said, &#8220;This is not a healthy preoccupation for you. You should instead ask Hashem to help you make a good parnassah (living) so you can marry and have children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Robert Reich upon meeting Alan Greenspan: &#8220;We have never met before, but I instantly knew him &#8230; He is New York. He is Jewish. He looks like my uncle Louis, his voice is my uncle Sam. I feel we&#8217;ve been together at countless weddings, bar mitzvahs, and funerals. I know his genetic structure. I&#8217;m certain that within the last five hundred years &#8230; we shared the same ancestor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* <A HREF=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ejsp.2420240602\/abstract\">Jewish scientists prefer to quote other Jewish scientists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* When Moshiach comes, we will miss the Days of Galus (Exile), when the goyim carried our bags, adjusted our air conditioners on Shabbat, and dunked basketballs for our amusement.<\/p>\n<p>* A beard is a spiritual antennae. The longer the beard, the more heavenly frequencies you receive.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Donnellan: &#8220;So, those hobos on skid row with those long matted beards must be closest to the almighty?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course not. They&#8217;re goyim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* My response to the suffering in Nepal is to say some prayers. I hope the Jews are OK. * I truly intended to hit that 7:30 am Friday meeting on procrastination. * I was telling this Orthodox rabbi my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68077\">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-68077","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\/68077","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=68077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68080,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68077\/revisions\/68080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}