{"id":12825,"date":"2010-02-25T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/25\/12825.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:06","slug":"fast-faster-fasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/25\/fast-faster-fasted\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast, faster, fasted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is the Fast of Esther, in preparation for Purim. Y&#8217;all know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/Bible.cfm?b=Est&amp;c=1&amp;v=1&amp;t=KJV#1\">the Purim story<\/a>, yes? Well, in Esther 4:16, she says\n<blockquote><p>Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.<\/blockquote>\n<p>We do not, of course, fast for three days and nights. In fact, most of us don&#8217;t fast at all&#8212;Your Humble Blogger certainly never has. I have mentioned here, probably most years, that Purim makes me uneasy, altogether. It&#8217;s possible that observing the Fast of Esther would help with that, somehow, although honestly I can&#8217;t see how.\n<p>Still, this is the first time in years that I have thought about the fast of Esther on the day of it, largely thanks to an attempt of mine to find blogs that write about Scripture from a similar standpoint to mine. This attempt has been largely unsuccessful, although I did discover some interesting things about the Purim traditions&#8230; anyway, to go along with the drinking and cross-dressing and triangular cookies, there&#8217;s a fast day. Which is probably pretty much over for all of you now. Ah, well.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger finds the True Meaning of Purim, as expressed by Rav Norm, who used to say: &#8216;Women. Can&#8217;t live with &#8217;em. Pass the beer nuts.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19024,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/19024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}