{"id":30729,"date":"2011-04-19T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=30729"},"modified":"2011-04-19T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:03:31","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-happy-passover-yiddish-smurf-tile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-happy-passover-yiddish-smurf-tile\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 Happy Passover! Hebrew Smurf Tile"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

I never really got into The Smurfs<\/a>. That shade of blue was definitely not my favorite color and I didn’t have the patience to learn the Smurf language. I also didn’t have the patience to study Hebrew for the couple of years I attended Hebrew school at Beth Aaron, right across the street from Mumford High<\/a> in Detroit, so have no idea what this Smurf is saying.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The only thing that kept me going to Hebrew School for the two years of one afternoon a week after school I went was the candy truck in the parking lot where we boarded the bus. I was bad enough at languages that use English lettering but once it came to Hebrew (or Chinese or Arabic or anything else that wasn’t the straight 26 letters I was used to) my brain turned into a quivering Jell-O mold. I hope this Smurf is saying nice to go along with the flowers he’s offering.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

If only he was holding a bottle of Mogen David.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I do love that he’s speaking in a language other than his native Dutch or adopted English. And I do hope he’s not saying anything anything offensive but, rather, something like \u201cHave and happy Passover and please enjoy the matzoh.”.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never really got into The Smurfs. That shade of blue was definitely not my favorite color and I didn’t have the patience to learn the Smurf language. I also didn’t have the patience to study Hebrew for the couple of years I attended Hebrew school at Beth Aaron, right across the street from Mumford … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361,319,1,181,405,223,87,193,115],"tags":[61,3232,3245,2648,2649],"class_list":["post-30729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands","category-comic-book","category-forgot-to-categorize","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-hats","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-tv-radio","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-smurf-hebrew","tag-smurf-tile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}