{"id":765,"date":"2007-08-22T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2011-07-14T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:52:54","slug":"jdate-party-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"JDate Party Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecalendargirls.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/where-are-all-jews.html\">Danielle Berrin writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The August 18 cocktail mixer and &quot;Lost 80s&quot; Live Concert was supposed to be the centerpiece event of JDate&#8217;s Schmooz-a-Palooza, a weekend-long extravaganza beginning with an oh-so-LA poolside party on Friday night at the Hyatt and ending with a swanky hotel brunch on Sunday morning-ish.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t make it to the early evening munch-and-meet, but according to one of the very few JDaters who stuck around for the rest of the night, it was, eh. Shelby, a bright, friendly and confident 23-year-old, verbally expressed her disappointment at the paltry turnout to Joel, one of the JDate representatives running the Palooza (we&#8217;ll get back to him in a bit). Shelby was also shocked and offended that the potato skins served at the reception had <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">gasp! <\/span>bacon on them! What is it with Jewish organizations serving blatantly non-kosher foods at their events (recall the <a href=\"http:\/\/thecalendargirls.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/justice-just-another-ball.html\">Justice Ball<\/a>)? Is it really that difficult in the land of abundance to find food options that aren&#8217;t treyf?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Berrin writes: The August 18 cocktail mixer and &quot;Lost 80s&quot; Live Concert was supposed to be the centerpiece event of JDate&#8217;s Schmooz-a-Palooza, a weekend-long extravaganza beginning with an oh-so-LA poolside party on Friday night at the Hyatt and ending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=765\">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":[148,9188,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-girls","category-danielle-berrin","category-jdate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}