{"id":1141,"date":"2014-09-01T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truthsyoucanuse\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2016-12-02T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T00:52:55","slug":"do-you-know-what-hurts-me-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truthsyoucanuse\/2014\/09\/do-you-know-what-hurts-me-a-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know What Hurts Me? A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truthsyoucanuse\/files\/2014\/09\/hurts_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1142\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/341\/2014\/09\/hurts_1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"hurts_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #272727\">A great rabbi went into a bar. He overheard a conversation between patrons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #272727\">One said to the other, \u201cFriend, do you love me?\u201d \u201cOf course I do,\u201d the second man replied. \u201cWe\u2019ve known each other our whole lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #272727\">\u201cThen tell me, friend,\u201d said the first man, \u201cWhat hurts me?\u201d The friend had no reply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #272727\">The first man continued \u201cHow can you love me, when you don\u2019t know what hurts me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myrabbi.leadpages.co\/leadbox\/1448b8f73f72a2%3A14865b6c4b46dc\/5720929187397632\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are You Christian? Get Your Free Jewish Holidays Cheat Sheet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A great rabbi went into a bar. He overheard a conversation between patrons. &nbsp; One said to the other, \u201cFriend, do you love me?\u201d \u201cOf course I do,\u201d the second man replied. \u201cWe\u2019ve known each other our whole lives.\u201d &nbsp; \u201cThen tell me, friend,\u201d said the first man, \u201cWhat hurts me?\u201d The friend had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do You Know What Hurts Me? 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