{"id":4379,"date":"2011-03-06T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2011-03-06T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:47:00","slug":"blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I went to the MRJ-West Man of the Year Dinner. While reading the list of honorees, I was surprised to see a name from my past, Bernie Kessler. When I was young (and I mean young&mdash;we&#8217;re speaking under 10), my family belonged to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mljewish.org\/cgi-bin\/retrieve.cgi?VOLUME=2&#038;NUMBER=39&#038;FORMAT=html\" target=\"_blank\">Temple Israel of Westchester (a\/k\/a Temple Jeremiah)<\/a>. Mr. Kessler was a past congregational president, active in temple brotherhood, and one of the teachers in the religious school. I remember taking classes from both Mr. Kessler and his daughter, Honey. But I haven&#8217;t seen him since our family moved to West LA in 1972 and we switched to Wilshire Blvd Temple. So it was quite a pleasant surprise to see him again after 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I went to the MRJ-West Man of the Year Dinner. While reading the list of honorees, I was surprised to see a name from my past, Bernie Kessler. When I was young (and I mean young&mdash;we&#8217;re speaking under 10), my family belonged to Temple Israel of Westchester (a\/k\/a Temple Jeremiah). Mr. Kessler was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4379\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-growing-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","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=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}