{"id":178910,"date":"2018-07-21T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/21\/today-is-the-worst-day-ever\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T00:45:00","slug":"today-is-the-worst-day-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/07\/21\/today-is-the-worst-day-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the Worst Day Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean this personally, but rather on a far broader level.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 9<sup>th<\/sup> of Av (<i>Tisha B&#8217;Av<\/i>) on the Jewish calendar.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of the Spinal Tap drummer of Jewish history.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample of its greatest &#8220;hits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report of the spies from Canaan, resulting in the people of Israel spending <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/\">40 Years in the Desert<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The destruction of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Temple.<\/li>\n<li>The destruction of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Temple.<\/li>\n<li>The Romans razed Betar, killing 100,000 Jews.<\/li>\n<li>The Romans plowed the temple mount.<\/li>\n<li>The start of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Crusade.  (You see it as a coming together of Christendom.  I see it as a pogrom with years of murder and rape.)<\/li>\n<li>The expulsion of Jews from England.<\/li>\n<li>The expulsion of Jews from France.<\/li>\n<li>The expulsion of Jews from Spain. <\/li>\n<li>Germany entered the WW I. (Can be legitimately claimed to have directly led to the Shoah)<\/li>\n<li>Formal approval of the &#8220;Final Solution&#8221; by the Nazis in 1941.<\/li>\n<li>Deportations to Treblinka from the Warsaw Ghetto begin in 1942.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mean this personally, but rather on a far broader level. It&#8217;s the 9th of Av (Tisha B&#8217;Av) on the Jewish calendar. It&#8217;s kind of the Spinal Tap drummer of Jewish history. Here is a sample of its greatest &#8220;hits&#8221;: The report of the spies from Canaan, resulting in the people of Israel spending &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":[389,380],"class_list":["post-178910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178910"}],"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=178910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}