{"id":1059,"date":"2017-01-04T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draherin.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2017-01-04T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T14:59:29","slug":"the-swastika-on-the-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/2017\/01\/04\/the-swastika-on-the-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swastika on the Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/jw\/s\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk.html?s=show\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk-1024x512-1.jpg?w=1140\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Unsettling times for American Jews as dark clouds of anti-Semitism intrude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was in the classroom when I saw it. I thought it was the usual inkblot souvenir left by the rambunctious teenagers at the Middle school where I teach, but there was nothing typical about it. Etched on the cream desk was a dark blue swastika, about the size of gumdrop and about as big as anything I had ever seen. Do these children even understand what their graffiti represents?<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/jw\/s\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk.html\">Click Here for\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/jw\/s\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk.html\">More<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aish.com\/jw\/s\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk.html\">&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsettling times for American Jews as dark clouds of anti-Semitism intrude. I was in the classroom when I saw it. I thought it was the usual inkblot souvenir left by the rambunctious teenagers at the Middle school where I teach, but there was nothing typical about it. Etched on the cream desk was a dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.draherin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Swastika-on-the-Desk-1024x512-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5MjSO-h5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draherin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}