{"id":185288,"date":"2011-08-08T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/08\/advice-to-the-yids-out-there\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T23:17:00","slug":"advice-to-the-yids-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/08\/advice-to-the-yids-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to the Yids* Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the market tanked today, so there is likely a bounce tomorrow, but if you are Jewish, don&#8217;t invest on Tisha B&#8217;av, which starts this sun down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not particularly superstitious, but when you consicer that this date gave us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reports of the spies, which led the Jews to spend  40 years in the desert.<\/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 crushing of the Bar Kokhba rebellion.<\/li>\n<li>The first crusade, which set of an orgy of pogroms and murder.<\/li>\n<li>The expulsion of the Jews from Spain.<\/li>\n<li>The expulsion of the Jews from England.<\/li>\n<li>The start of WWI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, seriously, not a good day for Jews to invest.&nbsp; I&#8217;m just saying.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">I&#8217;m a Yid myself, so I can use the term.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the market tanked today, so there is likely a bounce tomorrow, but if you are Jewish, don&#8217;t invest on Tisha B&#8217;av, which starts this sun down. I&#8217;m not particularly superstitious, but when you consicer that this date gave us: The reports of the spies, which led the Jews to spend 40 years in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185288"}],"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=185288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}