{"id":198975,"date":"2007-09-23T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/23\/yom-kippur\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:20:00","slug":"yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/23\/yom-kippur\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jewish day of atonement.  Unless medically contraindicated, you are to fast<sup>*<\/sup> fast, and to meditate on where you have failed to measure up this year<sup>&#8224;<\/sup>, and how you might be better next year.<\/p>\n<p>The fast went quite well for me.  My feet bothered me more than my stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the fast, we ate a meal of home made chicken pot pie<sup>&#8225;<\/sup> which was rather nice.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie, our 10 year old daughter actually fasted until about 2:30 in the afternoon, which was quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>We got together with some neighbors for a break the fast which was a lot of fun too\/<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>This means no food <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">OR<\/span> water for about 25&frac12; hours.  Judaism is not a religion for wimps.<br \/><sup>&#8224;<\/sup>Were I to post the list here, it would overload your browser.<br \/><sup>&#8225;<\/sup>You do not want to start a day without water with something spicy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jewish day of atonement. Unless medically contraindicated, you are to fast* fast, and to meditate on where you have failed to measure up this year&#8224;, and how you might be better next year. The fast went quite well for me. My feet bothered me more than my stomach. Just before the fast, we ate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,976,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-family","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198975"}],"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=198975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}