{"id":2649,"date":"2010-03-29T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T15:56:06","slug":"rock-town-hall-observes-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-observes-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall Observes Passover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/heston2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/heston2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">&#8220;I shall mark The Undertones&#8217; debut!&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This evening marks the beginning of the Jewish holy day of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passover\" target=_blank>Passover<\/a>. It is only fitting that Rock Town Hall observe this occasion, making sure not to interrupt tonight&#8217;s seder.<\/p>\n<p><em>If God were to inflict a plague that would wipe out all debut albums, which debut album would you mark with the blood of a spring lamb?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with the Passover story, read on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>From Wikipedia:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God inflicted ten plagues upon the Egyptians before Pharaoh would release his Hebrew slaves, with the tenth plague being the killing of all of the firstborn, from the Pharaoh&#8217;s son to the firstborn of the dungeon captive, to the firstborn of cattle. The Hebrews were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a spring lamb and, upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord passed over these homes, hence the term &#8220;passover&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No joke, for those observing this day, enjoy your seder!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I shall mark The Undertones&#8217; debut!&#8221; This evening marks the beginning of the Jewish holy day of Passover. It is only fitting that Rock Town Hall observe this occasion, making sure not to interrupt tonight&#8217;s seder. If God were to inflict a plague that would wipe out all debut albums, which debut album would you <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-observes-passover\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}