{"id":1798,"date":"2020-02-06T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2020-02-07T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:35:22","slug":"kirk-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, legendary actor, Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103. Those of us who are &#8220;Senior Citizens&#8221; grew up watching Kirk in the movies. Who can forget that incredible scene when the Romans were interrogating the followers of Spartacus and they all stood up and said, &#8220;I am Spartacus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What few know however, is that Kirk Douglas discovered his Jewish roots by reading the New Testament words of Jesus in Matthew 5. Kirk wrote in his book, <em>Climbing the Mountain<\/em>, &#8220;Some things that Jesus said made more sense in the context of Judaism than Christianity. Of all the things I read of him, the one that influenced me the most was this speech of Jesus recorded by the gospel writer of Matthew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more about how the words of Jesus touched Kirk&#8217;s life, please order my publication, <em>A Hollywood Star, the Torah and Jesus: What a Hollywood Super Star Discovered that Every Christian Should Know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rbooker.3dcartstores.com\/A-Hollywood-Star-the-Torah-and-Jesus-What-a-Hollywood-Super-Star-Discovered-That-Every-Christian-Should-Know-_p_279.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1251\" src=\"http:\/\/rbooker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/A-Hollywood-Star-the-Torah-and-Jesus-200x300-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rbooker.3dcartstores.com\/A-Hollywood-Star-the-Torah-and-Jesus-What-a-Hollywood-Super-Star-Discovered-That-Every-Christian-Should-Know-_p_279.html\">CLICK HERE TO ORDER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, legendary actor, Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103. Those of us who are &#8220;Senior Citizens&#8221; grew up watching Kirk in the movies. Who can forget that incredible scene when the Romans were interrogating the followers of Spartacus and they all stood up and said, &#8220;I am Spartacus.&#8221; What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kirk Douglas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}