{"id":43286,"date":"2026-04-16T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion-my-family-and-friends-questioned-why-i-wanted-to-visit-israel-thats-why-i-wanted-to-go-baltimore-jewish-times\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:50:59","slug":"opinion-my-family-and-friends-questioned-why-i-wanted-to-visit-israel-thats-why-i-wanted-to-go-baltimore-jewish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion-my-family-and-friends-questioned-why-i-wanted-to-visit-israel-thats-why-i-wanted-to-go-baltimore-jewish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: My Family and Friends Questioned Why I Wanted to Visit Israel. That\u2019s Why I Wanted to Go. &#8211; Baltimore Jewish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxPUXhVSm1LNlBscE9PU19keDN1Y3pQVFFDbmR3TG9SVVZqVXg5Rnc4dUFYZGRYbFl2Wk1Yam1NU3oyUlpRTlpkT0czSlJfM3BWSG51RHZ3S0RVRlRRbHl0cUpfMHlYdVZhQy1tTFpEUkRGZmIxdTZvOEZNYVhvUjVpRkxXUmROS05fN3JXU2U0NDFxZFFrNXZOVzR2anBSaG5RS24wYVBZR3FEejNiRDBxa0pQdzNmd3RrQ1U5MENIQzM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: My Family and Friends Questioned Why I Wanted to Visit Israel. That\u2019s Why I Wanted to Go.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Baltimore Jewish Times<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: My Family and Friends Questioned Why I Wanted to Visit Israel. That\u2019s Why I Wanted to Go.&nbsp;&nbsp;Baltimore Jewish Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}