{"id":302,"date":"2007-12-10T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2007-12-10T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T19:44:43","slug":"hhanukka-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Hhanukka meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/talmida.typepad.com\/lesserweevils\/2007\/12\/meme-of-8s.html\">Talmida<\/a> (and I&#8217;m sorry if it looks as if I cribbed a lot of the entries from her. There are reasons why we&#8217;re friends, you know):<\/p>\n<p class=\"bold\">8 interests in my life<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indonesian music<\/li>\n<li>Biblical interpretation<\/li>\n<li>Languages and scripts<\/li>\n<li>Cryptic crosswords<\/li>\n<li>Spirituality<\/li>\n<li>Mountains<\/li>\n<li>Theatre<\/li>\n<li>Food and drink<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bold\">8 things to do before I die<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the Far East<\/li>\n<li>Get a part in a movie<\/li>\n<li>Give up smoking<\/li>\n<li>Take a skin-diving course<\/li>\n<li>Learn sofrut<\/li>\n<li>Read (at least some of) the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata in the original<\/li>\n<li>See the Canadian Rockies<\/li>\n<li>Learn blues piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bold\">8 books I read recently<\/p>\n<p>This one is going to be a bit dull, because I have this habit of taking an author and working through him or her, especially when I&#8217;m unwell. Comfort reading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown<\/li>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown<\/li>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Incredulity of Father Brown<\/li>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Secret of Father Brown<\/li>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Scandal of Father Brown<\/li>\n<li>G K Chesterton The Club of Queer Trades<\/li>\n<li>James Kugel How to Read the Bible (working my way gradually through this one)<\/li>\n<li>Joan Peters From Time Immemorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bold\">8 films that mean something to me<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Princess Bride<\/li>\n<li>Chariots of Fire<\/li>\n<li>Pulp Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Brother Sun, Sister Moon<\/li>\n<li>The Parent Trap (1998 version)<\/li>\n<li>The Shawshank Redemption<\/li>\n<li>Wings of Desire<\/li>\n<li>Dead Poets Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bold\">8 songs that mean something to me<\/p>\n<li>Mr Fox &mdash; The Gypsy<\/li>\n<li>Pete Atkin &mdash; Beware of the Beautiful Stranger<\/li>\n<li>Bob Dylan &mdash; Simple Twist of Fate (and many others)<\/li>\n<li>Noa (\u05d0\u05d7\u05d9\u05e0\u05e2\u05dd \u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9) &mdash; Wildflower, also Path To Follow and \u05dc\u05d0\u05d8 \u05db\u05d4\u05d5\u05dc\u05dd \u05d4\u05dc\u05d1<\/li>\n<li>Tejedor &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elcohete.com\/tejelive.htm\">Texendo Sua\u00f1os<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ehud Banai (\u05d0\u05d4\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d1\u05e0\u05d0\u05d9)&lrm; &mdash; \u05e9\u05e2\u05d4 \u05e9\u05dc \u05de\u05d9\u05e1\u05d8\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05df<\/li>\n<li>John Lennon &mdash; Woman<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Cohen &mdash; Stranger Song<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Talmida (and I&#8217;m sorry if it looks as if I cribbed a lot of the entries from her. There are reasons why we&#8217;re friends, you know): 8 interests in my life Indonesian music Biblical interpretation Languages and scripts Cryptic crosswords Spirituality Mountains Theatre Food and drink 8 things to do before I die Visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}