{"id":2343,"date":"2023-03-02T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2023-03-02T12:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:17:36","slug":"celebrate-purim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"March 4, 2023 &#8211; Celebrate Purim!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purim is observed a month before Passover, and the focus is simply reading the Book of Esther. This feast is probably the original \u201cmorality play\u201d with audience participation. A mysterious part of the Purim feast is the rabbinical command to drink enough wine so that you can\u2019t distinguish between \u201cYay, Mordechai!\u201d and \u201cBoo, Haman!\u201d &#8211; and the fact that God is never mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Purim.pdf\">Notes on Purim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/More_Notes_on_Purim.pdf\">&#8230; Even More Notes on Purim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Purim_and_Yom_Kippur.pdf\">The Connection Between Purim and Yom Kippur<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purim is observed a month before Passover, and the focus is simply reading the Book of Esther. This feast is probably the original \u201cmorality play\u201d with audience participation. A mysterious part of the Purim feast is the rabbinical command to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=2343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2346,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}