{"id":3920,"date":"2010-12-25T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T23:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2011-03-31T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:32:09","slug":"jews-christmas-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/12\/25\/jews-christmas-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Jews Do On Christmas?  A Limerick Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader asks, &#8220;What do Jews do on Christmas?&#8221;  So as a public service, I offer a limerick explanation:<\/p>\n<p>What Do Jews Do On Christmas?  A Limerick Explanation<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a query that&#8217;s answered with ease:<br \/>\n&#8220;What do Jews do on Christmas Day, please?&#8221;<br \/>\nWe watch movies and read.<br \/>\nSurf the Net. (Dull indeed!)<br \/>\nBut mostly we munch on Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve dedicated that limerick to Supreme  Court Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/category\/elena-kagan\/\">Elena Kagan<\/a>.  (This <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/06\/29\/chinese-food-on-christmas\/\">post<\/a> explains why.)   And here&#8217;s a fun article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momentmag.com\/moment\/issues\/2009\/12\/200912-Talk_of_the_Table.html\">Jews and Chinese Food<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m posting holiday humor, I might as well post the rest of the holiday verse I dashed off this week.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll think that these haiku<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t all that bad for this old Jew.<\/p>\n<p>HOLIDAY HAIKU Quartet<\/p>\n<p>Best safety advice<br \/>\nFor the holiday season:<br \/>\nHide under your bed.<\/p>\n<p><center>*****<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s Christmas Eve<br \/>\nYour shopping better be done,<br \/>\nOr you&#8217;ve been naughty.<\/p>\n<p><center>*****<\/center><\/p>\n<p>A generous gift<br \/>\nFrom our fav gov agency:<br \/>\nRevised 1040.<\/p>\n<p><center>*****<\/center><\/p>\n<p>No gifts for Kwanzaa<br \/>\nOr Christmas or Chanukah.<br \/>\nHusband&#8217;s gift enough.<\/p>\n<p><center>*****<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader asks, &#8220;What do Jews do on Christmas?&#8221; So as a public service, I offer a limerick explanation: What Do Jews Do On Christmas? A Limerick Explanation By Madeleine Begun Kane Here&#8217;s a query that&#8217;s answered with ease: &#8220;What do Jews do on Christmas Day, please?&#8221; We watch movies and read. Surf the Net. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,41,33,517,42,127,58],"tags":[1657,1637,1655,2092,1658,599,920,4927,1653,4993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5824,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}