{"id":5545,"date":"2016-05-31T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2016-05-31T15:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:14:42","slug":"happy-birthday-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERNIE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Princeton professor, Bernard Lewis celebrates his 100th birthday today. Perhaps the world&#8217;s greatest scholar on the history of Islam, I had the great privilege of sharing a dinner and evening with him a few years ago where he graciously permitted to pose for the following photo. Apparently he is still going strong. Happy Birthday Bernie. In the words of the Jewish blessing, may he live to be 120. We need him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bernie-Lewis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5546\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bernie-Lewis.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie Lewis\" width=\"1961\" height=\"2190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bernie-Lewis.jpg 1961w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bernie-Lewis-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Bernie-Lewis-917x1024.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1961px) 100vw, 1961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton professor, Bernard Lewis celebrates his 100th birthday today. Perhaps the world&#8217;s greatest scholar on the history of Islam, I had the great privilege of sharing a dinner and evening with him a few years ago where he graciously permitted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}