{"id":236,"date":"2004-09-24T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2004-09-24T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:44:17","slug":"gemar-chatimah-tovah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/gemar-chatimah-tovah\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemar Chatimah tovah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that all who are observing Yom Kippur have an easy fast this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And particularly to Shawn Green, who has found a way to balance his heritage with his duties as a baseball player. And for this weekend, for those who care &#8212; GO BLUE!<\/p>\n<p><I>He is someone who does not practice his faith but wants to honor it nonetheless. He is someone who does not consider baseball more important than life, but who does not want to abandon his responsibilities there, either.<\/p>\n<p>In a sports world where most things are black and white, there is plenty of gray here. Just like in that other, real world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In religion, I don&#8217;t think there is an &#8216;all or none,&#8217; &#8221; Green said. &#8220;Everybody has to go about it their own way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As with anyone in this land of glorious religious freedom, here&#8217;s hoping Shawn Green is allowed to do so unimpeded.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-plaschke24sep24,1,957740.column?coll=la-headlines-sports\">&#8220;Dodger Lead Grows&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nby Bill Plaschke<br \/>\nLos Angeles Times<br \/>\nSeptember 24, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that all who are observing Yom Kippur have an easy fast this weekend. And particularly to Shawn Green, who has found a way to balance his heritage with his duties as a baseball player. And for this weekend, for those who care &#8212; GO BLUE! He is someone who does not practice his faith but wants to honor it nonetheless. He is someone who does not consider baseball more important than life, but who does not want to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-baseball","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-3O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}