{"id":37061,"date":"2013-01-31T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/israeli_secularists_appear_to_find_their_voice\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T16:55:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T16:55:17","slug":"israeli_secularists_appear_to_find_their_voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37061","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Secularists Appear to Find Their Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of ultra-Orthodox men shortly before he officially entered politics, Yair Lapid, a proudly secular talk-show host, declared that in a century-long competition to define Israel\u2019s character, \u201cwe lost and you won.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only in terms of numbers,\u201d\u009d Mr. Lapid said in late 2011 at a college for religious students, but also in politics \u201cand as a consumer force and in the streets and in the culture and in the educational system \u201d\u201d you won in all these places.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Mr. Lapid\u2019s stunning success in last week\u2019s election, in which his new Yesh Atid became Israel\u2019s second largest party, is being viewed by many voters, activists and analysts here as a victory for the secular mainstream in the intensifying identity battle gripping the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/29\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-secularists-find-their-voice-in-yair-lapid.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to a group of ultra-Orthodox men shortly before he officially entered politics, Yair Lapid, a proudly secular talk-show host, declared that in a century-long competition to define Israel\u2019s character, \u201cwe lost and you won.\u201d\u009d \u201cNot only in terms of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37061\">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":[39,40,50,42,133,565,429,203,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-history","category-israel","category-judaism","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061","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=37061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}