{"id":31716,"date":"2012-04-02T23:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_passover_preparation_takes_spring_cleaning_to_a_whole_new_level\/"},"modified":"2012-04-02T23:11:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T23:11:51","slug":"rns_passover_preparation_takes_spring_cleaning_to_a_whole_new_level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31716","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Passover preparation takes spring cleaning to a whole new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the month leading up to Passover, which this year begins April 6 at sundown, Chevy Weiss, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother with five kids and a demanding career, scrubs and vacuums almost everything in her Baltimore home.<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with their strict interpretation of Jewish law, which forbids Jews from possessing and consuming chametz (fermented grains) during the eight-day festival, Weiss and her husband, Yoel, clean every one of their five children&#8217;s toys by hand, with bleach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/doctrine-and-practice\/passover-prep-takes-spring-cleaning-to-a-whole-new-level\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the month leading up to Passover, which this year begins April 6 at sundown, Chevy Weiss, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish mother with five kids and a demanding career, scrubs and vacuums almost everything in her Baltimore home. In keeping with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31716\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,101,565,429,98,203,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-israel","category-judaism","category-marriage-family","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}