{"id":1107,"date":"2009-10-07T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bililite.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2009-10-07T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:45:23","slug":"preventing-irony-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/preventing-irony-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Irony Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the last day of a 3-month locum stint and they had a lunch for me. Ham and cheese subs.<\/p>\r\n<p>And someone who knew what kosher meant brought in Cheezits (my main vice). But it's sukkot, so I couldn't eat those in the office either.<\/p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p>In all seriousness, I'm never offended when someone offers me nonkosher food like this, and I try to discourage people from trying too hard. It's a lot easier to politely decline something clearly nonkosher, than responding to someone who worked really hard at getting it right but missed one detail. \"Here&mdash;you can eat this!\" always elicits a cringe.<\/p>\r\n<p>For those who don't see the irony in thanking an Orthodox Jew with ham and cheese, see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kosher\">wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was the last day of a 3-month locum stint and they had a lunch for me. Ham and cheese subs. And someone who knew what kosher meant brought in Cheezits (my main vice). But it's sukkot, so I couldn't eat those in the office either.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}