{"id":9261,"date":"2009-12-06T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2009-12-06T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:18:19","slug":"a-new-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9261","title":{"rendered":"A New Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Because we have discussed male infant circumcision on this blog before, a poem in progress:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>They say it\u2019s a shame we didn\u2019t do it<br \/>\nwhen we should have, that probably you\u2019ll need it<br \/>\nlater in life, when it\u2019s more complicated,<br \/>\nmore painful and, worse, you\u2019ll remember it.<\/p>\n<p>They say women won\u2019t want you, that you\u2019ll not<br \/>\nforgive us, ever, especially me, and that<br \/>\nthe Jews who\u2019ve died for what it means to be cut<br \/>\nwill have died in vain because we left you complete.<\/p>\n<p>And I know I can\u2019t not burden you with that.<br \/>\nYou have to, <em>have to,<\/em> resonate with what<br \/>\nyour body would have meant to all that hate,<br \/>\nand you will\u2014but sitting here alone tonight,<\/p>\n<p>my amputated life aching anew,<br \/>\nI\u2019m grateful for all that\u2019s merely whole in you.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCross-posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/richardjnewman.com\/2009\/12\/06\/a-new-covenant\/\">It&#8217;s All Connected<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we have discussed male infant circumcision on this blog before, a poem in progress: They say it\u2019s a shame we didn\u2019t do it when we should have, that probably you\u2019ll need it later in life, when it\u2019s more complicated, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9261\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-and-the-body","category-jews-and-judaism","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}