{"id":178005,"date":"2019-04-02T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/well-thats-very-white-of-you\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:21:00","slug":"well-thats-very-white-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/well-thats-very-white-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That&#8217;s Very White of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across an article <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2019\/03\/28\/could-the-ancient-jewish-practice-of-shmita-be-a-new-tool-for-sustainable-ag\/\">suggesting that the Jewish practice of Shmita could save sustainable architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those not up on obscure biblical laws, it is the requirement for a field to lie fallow once every 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>When all is said and done, allowing fields to lie fallow, and thus allowing the soil to rest is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>My problem is not that it&#8217;s a just a Jewish idea.<\/p>\n<p>It has been practiced almost universally around the world since the introduction of agriculture by almost every farming society until the advent of modern fertilizer technology.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that this is some sort of uniquely Jewish (and by implication &#8220;white&#8221;) secret is bullsh%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across an article suggesting that the Jewish practice of Shmita could save sustainable architecture. For those not up on obscure biblical laws, it is the requirement for a field to lie fallow once every 7 years. When all is said and done, allowing fields to lie fallow, and thus allowing the soil &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[525,380,406],"class_list":["post-178005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-religion","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}