{"id":828,"date":"2009-12-15T04:52:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-12-15T04:52:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:52:22","slug":"4th-candle-lighting-hanukkah-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"4th Candle Lighting &#8211; Hanukkah 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By this time in the second century BCE, the Macabees must have been pretty amazed!<\/p>\n<p>Each night this year, we&#8217;ve been reading a Hanukkah meditations &#8211; basically topics to think about during Hanukkah, when most people (kids) are just thinking about presents.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s sunk in, but each night we stop the normal Hanukkah present madness to read them a passage.\u00c2\u00a0 Tonight, we talked about a particularly appropriate topic &#8211; the kids, both Jewish and not, around the world who go to bed hungry every night.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s appropriate because, even with our family&#8217;s latest financial challenges to overcome, we still have a full refrigerator and three meals are put on the table every day.\u00c2\u00a0 The safety net is there for us, and with it, we should strive to help those who don&#8217;t have a safety net get the most basic sustenance.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well enough philosophy, you want the pics, right? :)\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_itemId=2693\">Happy Hanukkah<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this time in the second century BCE, the Macabees must have been pretty amazed! Each night this year, we&#8217;ve been reading a Hanukkah meditations &#8211; basically topics to think about during Hanukkah, when most people (kids) are just thinking about presents.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s sunk in, but each night we stop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}