{"id":196601,"date":"2008-04-09T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/my-son-is-very-jewish\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T01:05:00","slug":"my-son-is-very-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/09\/my-son-is-very-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"My Son is Very Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my son, Charlie, age 8, and I are watching Keith Olbermann, and we get to his favorite bit, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Worst Persons in the World<\/span>, and this time, it&#8217;s Joe Lieberman who wins the gold, for accusing the Ned Lamont campaign of hacking their website in 2006, when it was discovered well before election day that the problem was a poorly configured and overloaded web server, so it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lieberman<\/span> who hacked Lieberman&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n<p>My son knows that Lieberman is someone I detest, but there are a lot of those, so he asks, &#8220;Is he the one who hates blacks Jews and women?<\/p>\n<p>Realizing just who he was thinking of I reply, no, the one who hates blacks, Jews, and women is Pat Buchanan.<\/p>\n<p>He nods sagely, and says, &#8220;OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then I say, &#8220;Joe Lieberman is Jewish&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And he smacks himself on his head, and says, &#8220;That is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">so<\/span> embarrassing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that Non-Jews get the cultural overtone, but this is a perfectly Jewish moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my son, Charlie, age 8, and I are watching Keith Olbermann, and we get to his favorite bit, Worst Persons in the World, and this time, it&#8217;s Joe Lieberman who wins the gold, for accusing the Ned Lamont campaign of hacking their website in 2006, when it was discovered well before election day that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1064,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-media","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196601"}],"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=196601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}