{"id":71343,"date":"2015-07-21T06:41:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71343"},"modified":"2015-07-21T06:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:41:05","slug":"when-is-it-ok-to-make-jokes-about-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71343","title":{"rendered":"When Is It OK To Make Jokes About Jews?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.kveller.com\/when-is-it-ok-to-make-a-joke-about-jews\/\">From Kveller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s my dilemma. I make Jewish jokes all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: I was at a birthday party recently. The dad hosting the party was Jewish. We were playing on his kids\u2019 new swing set when I asked him if he put it together himself.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cNo, I paid someone $100 to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I replied, \u201cThat\u2019s what we Jews do! We pay someone to do it for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This got a big laugh from him and his friends who were standing nearby. His friends weren\u2019t Jewish. I was happy to get the laugh (as always), but it felt wrong.<\/p>\n<p>When is it OK to make a joke about Jews? Jew to Jew? Jew to non-Jew? Non-Jew (married to a Jew) to a Jew? Isn\u2019t it all wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kveller: But here\u2019s my dilemma. I make Jewish jokes all the time. Case in point: I was at a birthday party recently. The dad hosting the party was Jewish. We were playing on his kids\u2019 new swing set when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=71343\">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":[29695,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343","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=71343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71344,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71343\/revisions\/71344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}