{"id":1109,"date":"2010-09-10T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/09\/10\/thursday-night-shofar\/"},"modified":"2010-09-10T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T04:31:00","slug":"thursday-night-shofar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/09\/10\/thursday-night-shofar\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; shofar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_539006204\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<font face=\"Arial\">Shana Tova Happy New Year folks..\u00a0\u00a0 I had every intention of staying at home today and contemplate the coming year, but<br \/>work got in the way.. In fact I wasn&#8217;t the only one.. I ran int to (virtually at least) many (6)\u00a0 of my Jewish friends at work. I know it&#8217;s not a big deal, but it got me thinking on the level of busy-ness and pressure we all live under now. Years ago I would never have even considered working on a holiday like this.. nor would any of my semi-observant friends.\u00a0\u00a0 We would have all gone to <i>shul <\/i>(synagogue) out of conviction.. or at the very leas tout of guilt.. Less observant folks like me might have used the time to take a contemplative walk in the woods. Instead I felt compelled to work&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 what&#8217;s up with that ? <br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe there&#8217;s a new years resolution in that somewhere.. <\/p>\n<p>nite folks, nite sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>Ps., On this holiday you&#8217;re supposed to hear the sound of the shofar, a ram&#8217;s horn.. played. for those of you who don&#8217;t get out much.. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lmpld2lzaG1hZy5jb20vNzFtYWcvc2hvZmFyL3Nob2Zhci5tcDM=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> it is&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images02\/86\/l_23e5a36a3b4a41a997d6d466ddeade76.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/font><\/div>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><font face=\"Comic Sans MS\"><font face=\"Courier\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><font face=\"Impact\"><font face=\"Times\"><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\"><font face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shana Tova Happy New Year folks..\u00a0\u00a0 I had every intention of staying at home today and contemplate the coming year, butwork got in the way.. In fact I wasn&#8217;t the only one.. I ran int to (virtually at least) many (6)\u00a0 of my Jewish friends at work. I know it&#8217;s not a big deal, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/09\/10\/thursday-night-shofar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; shofar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}