{"id":45673,"date":"2014-09-03T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_rabbis_spiritual_playground_extends_to_the_surf\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:40:00","slug":"a_rabbis_spiritual_playground_extends_to_the_surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45673","title":{"rendered":"A Rabbi\u2019s \u201d\u02dcSpiritual Playground\u2019 Extends to the Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How could the rabbi convince the preteen boys that it was important to memorize a new alphabet and difficult prayers for their bar mitzvahs?<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi offered his students a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were studying Hebrew and he said if I taught him to surf, he would teach me Hebrew,\u201d\u009d said Jonah Dickson, 12. \u201cIt was a little surprising. I didn\u2019t think a rabbi would want to surf.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But this was the freewheeling rabbi of the East End.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/02\/nyregion\/a-rabbis-spiritual-playground-extends-to-the-surf.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could the rabbi convince the preteen boys that it was important to memorize a new alphabet and difficult prayers for their bar mitzvahs? The rabbi offered his students a deal. \u201cWe were studying Hebrew and he said if I<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45673\">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":[39,42,429,155,108,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45673","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=45673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}