{"id":54,"date":"2012-08-22T19:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/calledtocontroversy\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-09-08T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:30:06","slug":"why-i-wanted-green-streaks-after-my-dad-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/2012\/08\/22\/why-i-wanted-green-streaks-after-my-dad-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I wanted green streaks after my dad died."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/25\/files\/2012\/08\/ruth-hair-green-streaks.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"ruth-hair-green-streaks\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/25\/files\/2012\/08\/ruth-hair-green-streaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>My father, Moishe Rosen, was a colorful person. And he was playful. I think he still is; we just don&#8217;t get to see it because he&#8217;s been in heaven since May 19, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted so much for us to be glad that he would be joining Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, the one he just couldn&#8217;t stop talking about. He didn&#8217;t want us to be sad. I guess it was hard for him to understand just how much we would miss him. But I put green streaks in my hair not too long after he died because he did not want the color and playfulness to go out of life once he was in a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever do anything like that? Putting green streaks in your hair is one way of making a statement, but it doesn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsforjesus.org\/store\/called-to-controversy.html\" target=\"_blank\">I also wrote a book that tells how Moishe Rosen met Jesus and why he just couldn&#8217;t stop talking about Him<\/a>. The book has already lasted a little longer than the green streaks did.\u00a0If you have would like inside info and &#8220;extras&#8221; about the biography and about his life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CalledtoControversy\" target=\"_blank\">follow our Facebook page for Called to Controversy<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/calledtocontroversy\/files\/2012\/08\/ruth-hair-green-streaks.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father, Moishe Rosen, was a colorful person. And he was playful. I think he still is; we just don&#8217;t get to see it because he&#8217;s been in heaven since May 19, 2010. He wanted so much for us to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/2012\/08\/22\/why-i-wanted-green-streaks-after-my-dad-died\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/calledtocontroversy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}