{"id":1233,"date":"2005-01-24T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2005-01-24T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T15:19:00","slug":"two-steps-to-george-mcgovern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Two Steps to George McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normally, in the morning, I read yesterday’s paper (because, when I get up, today’s paper hasn’t arrived yet). So, this morning, I read yesterday’s Daily News<\/a>. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Jeanne Londe, who was my co-chair of Social Action when I was at Kol Tikvah<\/a>, is good friends with George McGovern<\/a>! I also learned that George McGovern likes Peter, Paul, and Mary<\/a> and has a Newfoundland dog (just like ixixlix<\/a>). Neat.<\/p>\n

In other news, yesterday went well (other than another headache). I spent the day reorganizing my games into some new storage bins—I created bins for word games, trivia games, party games, and 6-8 hour games, and moved a batch of “old games that I likely won’t play but want to keep” to the garage. This freed up a batch of space, resulting in some cascade rearrangements. This is a good thing. The evening was the Tu B’Shevat seder<\/a> at Temple Beth Hillel<\/a>. The seder was the model of efficiency (Rabbi Jim<\/a> starts and ends on time), but I found myself missing some aspects of TBT<\/a>‘s seder. The TBH<\/a> seder focuses on specific products from trees and their significance (figs, olives, pomegranates, dates, and almonds), whereas TBT<\/a>‘s focused more on characteristics (eat the entire fruit, edible skin, inedible skin-edible fruit, eat the seeds, etc.). Thus, we really didn’t eat what we think of as fruit at TBH<\/a> [except, perhaps, the figs] (i.e., kumquats, tangerines, apples, apricots). At least I was able to be a sycophant<\/a>, giving a fig to my daughter.<\/p>\n

[This post is illustrating a new user picture that was derived from a characture of me drawn for the 1993 ACSAC in Orlando.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, in the morning, I read yesterday’s paper (because, when I get up, today’s paper hasn’t arrived yet). So, this morning, I read yesterday’s Daily News. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Jeanne Londe, who was my co-chair of Social Action when I was at Kol Tikvah, is good friends with George McGovern! I Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[215,66],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-lj-xfer","tag-decluttering","tag-tbhla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}