{"id":130,"date":"2004-12-14T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"when-night-ends-a-lesson-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"When Night Ends.  A lesson for the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can we determine the hour of dawn &#8211; when the night ends and the day begins?&#8221; the rabbi asked of his students. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When, from a distance, you can distinguish between a dog and a sheep?&#8221; one of his students suggested. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No&#8221; the rabbi answered. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it when you can distinguish between a fig tree and a grapevine?&#8221; another student asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No&#8221; he replied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please tell us the answer, then&#8221; said the students. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is when you can look into the face of a human being and have enough light to recognize in him your brother,&#8221; the wise teacher replied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until then, it is night, and the darkness is still with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can we determine the hour of dawn &#8211; when the night ends and the day begins?&#8221; the rabbi asked of his students. &#8220;When, from a distance, you can distinguish between a dog and a sheep?&#8221; one of his students suggested. &#8220;No&#8221; the rabbi answered. &#8220;Is it when you can distinguish between a fig tree [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}