{"id":30563,"date":"2012-03-30T22:04:16","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/passover\/fundamentals_of_the_seder_night\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T14:36:12","slug":"fundamentals_of_the_seder_night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/fundamentals_of_the_seder_night\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentals of the Seder Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Building-Blocks-Fundamentals-768x512.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Building-Blocks-Fundamentals-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Building-Blocks-Fundamentals-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Building-Blocks-Fundamentals.jpg 900w\" alt=\"Building Blocks\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>How &amp; why is the paragraph of Arami Oved Avi the focus of the Haggadah? 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