{"id":188449,"date":"2010-09-24T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/24\/number-7-on-he-list-of-things-that-i-really-did-not-want-to-know\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T01:31:00","slug":"number-7-on-he-list-of-things-that-i-really-did-not-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/24\/number-7-on-he-list-of-things-that-i-really-did-not-want-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 7 on he List of Things That I Really Did Not Want to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 300px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img213.imageshack.us\/img213\/1566\/3339caffeinesuppositori.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img213.imageshack.us\/img213\/1566\/3339caffeinesuppositori.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ewwwww! Both the Pill and the Smile<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It appears that members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/33\/39\/all_caffeinesuppositories_2010_09_24_bk.html\">using anal caffeine suppositories to deal with withdrawal from go juice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Jews throughout Williamsburg snapped up caffeine suppositories today, hours before the start of the Yom Kippur fast that would deprive them of the jolt \u2014 and hunger suppression \u2014 that coffee typically provides.<\/p>\n<p>The day-long fast is the centerpiece of the holiest day on the Jewish calendar \u2014 but some religious Jews see a Talmudic loophole that allows them to ingest their daily dose of caffeine, albeit through a different orifice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt helps \u2014 you know, it\u2019s hard to concentrate when you\u2019re fasting and also addicted to caffeine,\u201d said Baruch Herzfeld, an Orthodox Jew who owns a bike store in Williamsburg. \u201cSome take it before sundown, but most take it throughout their fasting. These guys love a good loophole.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, tapering off over the few weeks before is both more in keeping with the spirit Halacha.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Jewish Law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Ewwwww! Both the Pill and the Smile It appears that members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York are using anal caffeine suppositories to deal with withdrawal from go juice: Jews throughout Williamsburg snapped up caffeine suppositories today, hours before the start of the Yom Kippur fast that would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1021,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-religion","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188449"}],"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=188449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}