{"id":1373,"date":"2011-08-05T21:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:32:18","slug":"sholem-aleichem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/05\/sholem-aleichem\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yiddish author, Sholem Aleichem, &#8220;never uses humor to escape from what&#8217;s terrible.  He creates a perspective from which the most terrible things are funny too.  He believed that the highest form of faith was not to accept but to argue with God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;translator Hillel Halkin, in the documentary, &#8220;Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness&#8221; as reported in the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Friday, August 5, 2011<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yiddish author, Sholem Aleichem, &#8220;never uses humor to escape from what&#8217;s terrible. He creates a perspective from which the most terrible things are funny too. He believed that the highest form of faith was not to accept but to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2011\/08\/05\/sholem-aleichem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8,17,16,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}