{"id":17907,"date":"2012-11-24T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17907"},"modified":"2012-11-24T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T17:15:54","slug":"israel-where-the-1970s-never-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/israel-where-the-1970s-never-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: where the 1970s never ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2012\/11\/23\/4-places-to-visit-in-israel-once-its-safe-to-go-back-part-one\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Shaidle<\/a> reports on her recent trip to Israel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Folks who say visiting Israel is like traveling back in time don\u2019t know the half of it.<\/p>\n<p>Say: Do you find yourself missing the 1970s \u2014 even though, like me, you vowed you never would?<\/p>\n<p>That is: Do you miss litter, graffitti, off-leash dogs, free range cats, smoking on the beach, 13 TV channels, no wheelchair ramps \u2014 plus polyester everything?<\/p>\n<p>Because if so, Israel is the 70s with cellphones! You\u2019ll love it! Heck, the same war\u2019s still going on!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: This <em>shiksa<\/em> just got back from her second trip to Israel \u2014 not a moment too soon, from the looks of things \u2014 and I\u2019m here with the first of a series of articles that will go from macro to micro.<\/p>\n<p><em>PJMedia<\/em>\u2019s own Barry Rubin literally wrote the book on Israel. I read it before I left and recommend it highly. But he\u2019s a Jew who has lived there for years. I\u2019m writing as a gentile two-time visitor.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I\u2019ll start off with an overviews of major cities and regions in Israel, then drill down in the coming weeks, to cover specific attractions; define words that don\u2019t mean what you (or more accurately, your dorky grad student nephew) think they mean (i.e., \u201ccheck point,\u201d \u201csettlement,\u201d \u201crefugee camp\u201d); then offer tips on food, language, manners and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Shaidle reports on her recent trip to Israel: Folks who say visiting Israel is like traveling back in time don\u2019t know the half of it. Say: Do you find yourself missing the 1970s \u2014 even though, like me, you vowed you never would? That is: Do you miss litter, graffitti, off-leash dogs, free range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[263,291,274,202],"class_list":["post-17907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-1970s","tag-israel","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17908,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}