{"id":1084,"date":"2011-04-20T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:52:32","slug":"for-passover-a-bit-of-history-and-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/04\/20\/for-passover-a-bit-of-history-and-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"For Passover: a bit of history and humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passover is a home-based celebration. At our home, we gather 10-30 people&#8211;Jews and non-Jews&#8211;to celebrate freedom, spring, rebirth. And, a long history. (Sadly, this year, no gathering in my home&#8230;but next year, yes, in DeKalb.) Thanks to SLU professor Bruce Weiner for the link to this very<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/18\/arts\/design\/the-washington-haggadah-at-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html?emc=eta1\"> good article <\/a>about the Haggadah&#8211;the text that guides the Passover seder.Lots about the history of the Haggadah, and the holiday. Reproductions from an old Haggadah, photos of a related museum display. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;re properly up to speed on Passover, you&#8217;re ready for this lighter note:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jj_HzQSWKBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jj_HzQSWKBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Happy Passover. Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passover is a home-based celebration. At our home, we gather 10-30 people&#8211;Jews and non-Jews&#8211;to celebrate [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5475,5474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}