{"id":432,"date":"2006-10-23T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/10\/23\/lego-my-torah\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:50:33","slug":"lego-my-torah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2006\/10\/23\/lego-my-torah\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego my Torah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 6-year-old son&#8217;s having a playdate right now. There are clinking noises and murmurs coming through the open door to his room. And then I hear my son say this: &#8220;I&#8217;ll trade you a Jewish Bible.&#8221; A what?!<br \/>\nYou heard right, he&#8217;s trying to trade his friend a Torah, that ancient fount of sacred wisdom. &#8220;What are you gonna trade for?&#8221; I call out, hoping it&#8217;s a Koran or The Book of Mormon or somesuch &#8212; something we can use. But no, it&#8217;s for Lego pieces.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s what the world&#8217;s come to, my friends &#8212; 6-year-olds trying to trade their Torahs for Lego pieces.<br \/>\nThis never would have happened when Bill Clinton was president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 6-year-old son&#8217;s having a playdate right now. There are clinking noises and murmurs coming through the open door to his room. And then I hear my son say this: &#8220;I&#8217;ll trade you a Jewish Bible.&#8221; A what?! You heard right, he&#8217;s trying to trade his friend a Torah, that ancient fount of sacred wisdom. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}