{"id":77,"date":"2007-06-17T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2007\/06\/17\/birthright-israel\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T21:10:02","slug":"birthright-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2007\/06\/17\/birthright-israel","title":{"rendered":"Birthright Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left today for a birthright trip to Israel with Jared and Kali. It&#8217;s a free trip offered to young Jews who haven&#8217;t been to Israel before, to help them appreciate the state, and maybe get them to fall in love and make Jewish babies. Neither of these ends are our goals, but a free plane ticket around the world is too good to pass up. <\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-photo\">\n<div class=\"wpg2tag-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=1615\" title=\"00002\" rel=\"lightbox[77]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=1614&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" id=\"IFid1\" class=\"ImageFrame_none\" alt=\"00002\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"giDescription\">00002<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>El-Al 747<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jared failed the Jewish test administered by El-Al, and was searched closely before being allowed on the flight. When they found his Arabic textbook, they decided he was a security risk, and he was escorted onto the plane before the rest of us, surrounded by burly guards. This was an ignominious start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left today for a birthright trip to Israel with Jared and Kali. It&#8217;s a free trip offered to young Jews who haven&#8217;t been to Israel before, to help them appreciate the state, and maybe get them to fall in love and make Jewish babies. Neither of these ends are our goals, but a free plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthright-and-beyond","tag-israel"],"geo":{"latitude":31.7800007,"longitude":35.2200012,"description":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}