{"id":30730,"date":"2007-12-07T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/chanukah\/the_miracles_of_chanuka1\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:39:07","slug":"the_miracles_of_chanuka1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_miracles_of_chanuka1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracles of Chanukah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Miracle-e1471326771866-768x512.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Miracle-e1471326771866-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Miracle-e1471326771866-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Miracle-e1471326771866-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Miracle-e1471326771866.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"Miracle\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>Through an inside look at the miracles of Chanuka we can better understand why lighting the candles is so important for us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through an inside look at the miracles of Chanuka we can better understand why lighting the candles is so important for us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":862,"featured_media":40450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chanukah","post_format-post-format-audio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Miracles of Chanukah - Jewish Holidays<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why is lighting the menorah so crucial that even a poor person who can&#039;t afford anything has to do it? 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