{"id":765,"date":"2008-04-21T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-04-21T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:47:00","slug":"happy-belated-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/21\/happy-belated-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated Passover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SAya6nrRt2I\/AAAAAAAABSs\/0nQFjeEAr2E\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SAya6nrRt2I\/AAAAAAAABSs\/0nQFjeEAr2E\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A belated Happy Passover to those who celebrated this weekend!  I spent the first seder at my aunt and uncle&#8217;s (who I learned are readers of GWP!) and the second at a dear friend&#8217;s dear parents&#8217; house.  Among the attendees at the latter was an Iraqi refugee, peace activist, and school teacher who arrived in New York from Baghdad about 8 months ago.  I&#8217;ll call her S.  <\/p>\n<p>My friend&#8217;s dad is a linguist (and also a blogger!), and we asked the 4 questions in 7 different languages.  Marco read them in Spanish, and S. read them in Arabic.  I felt very verklempt at the whole thing, and proud to be part of a tradition that requires us to invite people who aren&#8217;t Jewish to the seder, in the spirit of being &#8220;welcoming to the stranger in your midst&#8221;.  May this season usher in a time of renewal, rejeuvenation, and true freedom for all who remain in chains, whether enslavement be internal, external, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A belated Happy Passover to those who celebrated this weekend! I spent the first seder at my aunt and uncle&#8217;s (who I learned are readers of GWP!) and the second at a dear friend&#8217;s dear parents&#8217; house. Among the attendees at the latter was an Iraqi refugee, peace activist, and school teacher who arrived in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}