{"id":404,"date":"2010-06-28T05:06:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T05:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/?p=404"},"modified":"2018-10-21T22:39:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:39:27","slug":"serious-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/2010\/06\/28\/serious-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Home\/Article.aspx?id=179693\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>June 28, 2010<\/p>\n<p>When Birthright was launched a decade ago,  skeptics dismissed the 10-day tours of Israel as little more than a free  party for privileged college kids. It was an unfair critique, but it  gained traction because it combined the ever popular lament about the  \u201cyouth of today\u201d with an equally curmudgeonly suspicion that something  so fun could not actually be serious.<br \/>\nSurprisingly, many supporters of Birthright still buy into the critique even as they seek to rebut it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Home\/Article.aspx?id=179693\" target=\"_blank\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post June 28, 2010 When Birthright was launched a decade ago, skeptics dismissed the 10-day tours of Israel as little more than a free party for privileged college kids. It was an unfair critique, but it gained traction because it combined the ever popular lament about the \u201cyouth of today\u201d with an equally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[30,28,29,22,34,14],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-birthright-israel","tag-book","tag-diaspora","tag-israel","tag-op-eds","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/shaulkelner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}