{"id":7495,"date":"2008-12-08T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2008-12-08T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:03:50","slug":"are-israelis-wary-of-befriending-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7495","title":{"rendered":"Are Israelis Wary Of Befriending Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because Americans making aliyay (moving to Israel) are so likely to return home.<\/p>\n<p>That was an insight in Danit Brown&#8217;s new novel, &quot;Ask For A Convertible.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Danit replies to my inquiry: &quot;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true, and even if it is, I wonder whether Israelis would be conscious of this, and whether more of this has to do with cultural differences, like not laughing at the same things.&nbsp; When I was in Israel, it did seem as if English speakers stuck with English speakers except for when it came to dating, but again, that&#8217;s just my experience.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Americans making aliyay (moving to Israel) are so likely to return home. That was an insight in Danit Brown&#8217;s new novel, &quot;Ask For A Convertible.&quot; Danit replies to my inquiry: &quot;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true, and even if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[37],"tags":[14611,14437,14610,1174,4869],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","tag-cultural-differences","tag-danit","tag-english-speakers","tag-israelis","tag-new-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7496,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}