{"id":198,"date":"2020-12-10T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/?p=198"},"modified":"2020-12-10T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:20:14","slug":"december-10th-hanukkah-drabbles-by-curlew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"December 10th- Hanukkah Drabbles by Curlew"},"content":{"rendered":"

44 Candles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Huggy’s?”<\/p>\n

“Think I’ll go home.”<\/p>\n

“You OK?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. Just\u2026. Fine. See you tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Hutch looked after him uncertainly, then settled down to paperwork.<\/p>\n

In five minutes, he was out the door, and in two hours, he was at Starsky’s, laden with parcels.<\/p>\n

“What’s all this?”<\/p>\n

“No idea — Avram took me shopping. You looked kinda blue, and when I checked the calendar\u2026. Careful, that’s the\u2026 menorah? Is that right? Why do we need 44 candles? Starsk, I know I’m not family\u2026.”<\/p>\n

Starsky hugged him. “You’re a great substitute! Wow — sufganiyot<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

“Avram insisted. Trust you to have a faith that involves donuts”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Hanukkah Miracle<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Hutch, you don’t look Jewish, but there must be an ancestor somewhere…”<\/p>\n

“You know I love applesauce — and those pancakes\u2026”<\/p>\n

“Latkes”<\/p>\n

“…are delicious! Anyway. Why 44 candles?”<\/p>\n

“If you light one the first day, Einstein, and two the second for eight days…”<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah. And eight days?”<\/p>\n

“When the Maccabees purified the Temple, one day’s worth of oil burned for eight. A miracle. That’s why Hanukkah food’s fried in oil.”<\/p>\n

“You made that up. To get more donuts.”<\/p>\n

“Sufganiyot<\/em>. Hutch….”<\/p>\n

“Yeah?”<\/p>\n

“You’re looking kinda like a miracle to me.”<\/p>\n

With a wide eyed inevitability, they drew together in the candlelight.<\/p>\n

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44 Candles “Huggy’s?” “Think I’ll go home.” “You OK?” “Yeah. Just\u2026. Fine. See you tomorrow.” Hutch looked after him uncertainly, then settled down to paperwork. In five minutes, he was out the door, and in two hours, he was at Starsky’s, laden with parcels. “What’s all this?” “No idea — Avram took me shopping. You … Continue reading “December 10th- Hanukkah Drabbles by Curlew”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fic","category-sfw","category-slash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/advent.starskyhutchcalendar.net\/2020\/calendar\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}