Today, around the corner from my Manhattan apartment, two men in hassidic garb had a little table set up.<\/p>\n
As I walked past, one of them said to me “Excuse me, are you Jewish?”<\/p>\n
Responding in kind, I asked him “Are you Jewish?”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” he replied.<\/p>\n
“Funny,” I said, “you don’t look Jewish.”<\/p>\n
And then I continued on my way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, around the corner from my Manhattan apartment, two men in hassidic garb had a little table set up. As I walked past, one of them said to me “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” Responding in kind, I asked him “Are you Jewish?” “Yes,” he replied. “Funny,” I said, “you don’t look Jewish.” And then … Continue reading “Brief encounter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25845,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25844\/revisions\/25845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}