{"id":177,"date":"2010-04-13T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/04\/omer-advent-calendar-version-2-0.html"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:01:31","slug":"omer-advent-calendar-version-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/04\/omer-advent-calendar-version-2-0.html","title":{"rendered":"Omer advent calendar, version 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/holidays\/Jewish_Holidays\/Passover\/In_the_Community\/The_Omer.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Omer<\/a> is supposed to be a time of mourning, but around here, it&#8217;s a time for jelly beans.<br \/>\nI may not have made counting the Omer any more meaningful (I have been counting for much of my 42 years, and I still can never remember from year to year what &#8220;omer&#8221; really is) but at least it&#8217;s fun. And since we are a house that sees very little candy, it&#8217;s <em>quite<\/em> exciting. How often do most parents hear their children begging to count the Omer?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/homeshuling.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/omer-counter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"https:\/\/homeshuling.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/omer-counter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the Omer is supposed to be a time of mourning, but around here, it&#8217;s a time for jelly beans. I may not have made counting the Omer any more meaningful (I have been counting for much of my 42 years, and I still can never remember from year to year what &#8220;omer&#8221; really&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish","category-parenting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Omer advent calendar, version 2.0 - Homeshuling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/04\/omer-advent-calendar-version-2-0.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Omer advent calendar, version 2.0 - Homeshuling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I know the Omer is supposed to be a time of mourning, but around here, it&#8217;s a time for jelly beans. 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