{"id":2804,"date":"2005-04-24T16:01:06","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/04\/24\/2804.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:01","slug":"pass-lightly-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/04\/24\/pass-lightly-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass Lightly Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger will likely have little time for posting in the next week and a half or so. Sorry about that. I will likely post a few times, but I doubt I&#8217;ll do any real research and analysis. We&#8217;ll see.\n<p>This is roughly the same time frame as Passover, which as noted before in this space, is my favorite holiday. Seder was lovely, and involved telling the story to children, which is nice, and a fair amount of singing and laughing, which was nice, too. Oh, and eating. A lot of eating. Which was nice.\n<p>One thing I like about Passover is that the celebration of the holiday is so closely tied to the reason for the holiday. Yes, there are lots of extraneous elements, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine anybody having anything like a seder without talking about the exodus. It&#8217;s easy to imagine a Purim party where nobody talks about Esther, or a Sukkot party where nobody talks about, um, the harvest? Or the Mishkan? Or the wanderings? Or the Temple? What is Sukkot about, exactly? Anyway, Passover is Passover, and is more the thing itself than any other holiday.\n<p>Except, of course, for the four or five days before Passover, during which it appears to be a holiday about cleaning.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger will likely have little time for posting in the next week and a half or so. Sorry about that. I will likely post a few times, but I doubt I\u2019ll do any real research and analysis. We\u2019ll&#8230;<\/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":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17391,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/17391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}