{"id":8905,"date":"2009-05-08T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2009-05-08T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:00:22","slug":"an-orthodox-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8905","title":{"rendered":"An Orthodox Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/pageroute.do\/39185\/\">From The Jewish Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It takes courage and guts for a well-known person in the Orthodox world to write a memoir, a personal account sharing chapters of her life, which include how she became frum. On May 11 in New York, Leah Kotkes, a beloved writer among her readers, will release her first book, a candid, friendly, page-turner: The Map Seeker: One Woman&#8217;s Quest.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this interview article is a quote from the book; a direct quote from Leah&#8217;s father, after she told him, at the age of 28, she intended to lead the life of a Torah Jew in Israel. Her father&#8217;s response was due to his surprise and also awe at his daughter&#8217;s decision, having lived a secular life all these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Jewish Press: It takes courage and guts for a well-known person in the Orthodox world to write a memoir, a personal account sharing chapters of her life, which include how she became frum. On May 11 in New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8905\">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":[18],"tags":[17528,17530,1158,7423,17529,1030],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","tag-beloved-writer","tag-interview-article","tag-jewish-press","tag-orthodox-world","tag-secular-life","tag-torah-jew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","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=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8906,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}