{"id":2727,"date":"2022-02-27T20:14:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2022-02-27T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:07:38","slug":"mixed-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Saul-Steinberg-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Saul Steinberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mixed marriages make up much of life.<br \/>My nose that lives with my two eyes is a mixed marriage.<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (How does my nose live when eyes look down on it?)\u00a0<br \/>Body and soul share grief and dreams in their love affair.<br \/>Redheads and brunettes, poets and accountants, harpists and rappers,Tesla and bikes \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 practice melange m\u00e9nage. <br \/>Certain Americans and Russians, also known as men and women, citizens of the world(s), <br \/>          etc. do it.\u00a0 Russians and Ukrainians take risk of the everyday erotic.  <br \/>Sometimes one will run the bathroom sink while screaming, I can\u2019t hear you when<br \/>          the water\u2019s running.<br \/>They may employ vacuum cleaners and various engines, though rarely war machines. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, mixed marriage of the ardent.&nbsp; Tolstoy the pacifist, the vegetarian, the disciplinarian who insisted that Levin (Anna K) thresh his fields.&nbsp; Only fools would grab sabres, run to kill others, with great faith and grandeur, to save fellow Slavs.&nbsp; In August, subvert nature and its harvest, let villages starve while sending villagers to fight long-distance wars? Dostoevsky livid, he wanted to take Constantinople.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tools required: nimble minds.&nbsp; Torah students must argue 70 interpretations, fully inhabiting each point of view.&nbsp; After diving into the kinks, pits, ears, and flesh of each angle, they reject most.&nbsp; But they hold the key. They have recovered unknown faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed marriages make up much of life.My nose that lives with my two eyes is a mixed marriage.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (How does my nose live when eyes look down on it?)\u00a0Body and soul share grief and dreams in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[1213,1215,1214,1211,1212,1216],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-domestic","tag-mixed-marriage","tag-other","tag-russian-us-relations","tag-ukraine-russia","tag-wwiii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-HZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}