{"id":3769,"date":"2024-03-25T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2024-03-20T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:00:19","slug":"october-7-and-the-pumpkin-spice-latte-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/03\/october-7-and-the-pumpkin-spice-latte-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"October 7 and the \u201cPumpkin Spice Latte Problem\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The thing that I most connect with in this comic<\/a> is that the Jews look like ghosts. I identify with that, as I\u2019ve often felt like a ghost here in my Homeland. I guess the big change for me since October 7 is that before I felt like a ghost passing largely unnoticed or unacknowledged. That was sometimes annoying, but usually fine. Or, at least, I was used to it, which made it seem fine if I didn’t think about it too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I feel like some portion of the population has noticed us and decided we need to be exorcised and banished, while another portion has noticed us and wants us to summarize 3000 years of history in seven words or less and then explain what the hell is up with a bunch of other ghosts in some other country who we don\u2019t even know, while a third portion have noticed us and insist we aren\u2019t ghosts at all\u2014just pale \u201cregular\u201d people who should get over whatever unpleasantness happened in the 1930s and 40s in Europe, or last October, or last week, or last night, or tomorrow, because it’s all the distant past and in our heads and maybe didn’t even happen or certainly isn’t or wasn’t or won’t be as bad as we say it was\/is\/will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the biggest portion look at me and say \u201cYou\u2019re a ghost? I had no idea you were a ghost!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018cause I don\u2019t look like a stereotypical ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I am a ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been a ghost this entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The thing that I most connect with in this comic is that the Jews look like ghosts. I identify with that, as I\u2019ve often felt like a ghost here in my Homeland. I guess the big change for me since October 7 is that before I felt like a ghost passing largely unnoticed or unacknowledged. … Continue reading “October 7 and the \u201cPumpkin Spice Latte Problem\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[547,467,857,1000,999,577,656,83,856,572,53],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/112156625684690028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}