{"id":274,"date":"2005-12-19T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2005-12-21T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:43:49","slug":"you-cant-start-too-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Start Too Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me to Ellat (aged 7) <span class=\"stageDirection\">planning to lead up to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torah.org\/learning\/yomtov\/chanukah\/5755\/vol1no58.html\">the Beit Yosef&#8217;s Question<\/a>&#8221; to see how she handles it<\/span>: Tell me why there are eight days of Chanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>Ellat <span class=\"stageDirection\">totally short-circuiting me<\/span>: Because when the Jews restored the temple, it took them eight days.<\/p>\n<p>Me <span class=\"stageDirection\">trying to get back to what I hoped was going to be the topic<\/span>: But what about the miracle of the flask of oil?<\/p>\n<p>Ellat <span class=\"stageDirection\">considers it for 1\/10 of a second and delivers the coup de grace<\/span>: It would appear that that&#8217;s a legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me to Ellat (aged 7) planning to lead up to &#8220;the Beit Yosef&#8217;s Question&#8221; to see how she handles it: Tell me why there are eight days of Chanukkah. Ellat totally short-circuiting me: Because when the Jews restored the temple, it took them eight days. Me trying to get back to what I hoped was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}