{"id":7148,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/passover-in-a-union-camp\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:55","slug":"passover-in-a-union-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/passover-in-a-union-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover In A Union Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An account of an improvised Passover seder among Jews in a Union Army camp in West Virginia.  They arranged for matzos and foraged for cider, a lamb, chickens and eggs.  They did not know what part of the lamb to use so they ate the whole thing.  They also did not have horseradish so they used a bitter local herb.  When this was eaten, pandemonium broke out and they drank both kegs of cider rather than four cups apiece.  As a result, one thought he was Moses, another Aaron, and still another had the audacity to call himself Pharaoh.  Despite the irregularities it was the most meaningful Passover of Joseph Joel&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>[from Rabbi Joel Soffin for Passover 1997]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An account of an improvised Passover seder among Jews in a Union Army camp in West Virginia. They arranged for matzos and foraged for cider, a lamb, chickens and eggs. They did not know what part of the lamb to use so they ate the whole thing. They also did not have horseradish so they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4978,3269,5021,792,3610,630,4750],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}