{"id":14495,"date":"2013-05-15T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=14495"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:34:26","slug":"cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/cops\/","title":{"rendered":"COPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam and Frank <\/strong><\/span>— Cleveland cops — grew up on E. 79th<\/sup> Street and St. Clair Avenue.<\/p>\n

Sam said, \u201cI\u2019m going to have a silver wedding anniversary and invite my three ex-wives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank said, \u201cIf you and the\u00a0commander — plus your exes — get together, you\u2019ll need the FOP Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank said<\/strong><\/span>, \u201cI remember when you were an old man.\u201d (Frank was 37; Sam, 47.)<\/p>\n

Sam said, \u201cI\u2019ve got 1139 days left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank said, \u201cWe’ve got to make you a short-timer\u2019s calendar.\u00a0 I had one in the service with the finger on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sam and Frank<\/strong><\/span>, on a drug sweep, rolled down St. Clair Avenue, Collinwood, in a junker at 1 a.m.<\/p>\n

Sam said, \u201cWhere did we get this piece-of-shit car?\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank said, \u201cMentor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere in Mentor?<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the flea market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Pepper Avenue and 140th<\/sup> Street, Sam said, \u201cHe\u2019s moving. That car is moving.\u00a0 Let\u2019s catch him dirty while he\u2019s rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam<\/strong><\/span> threw the guy up against the car hood.\u00a0 He was dirty; he had a joint on him.<\/p>\n

Frank said, \u201cLet him go. Let\u2019s go to Mandalay [playground] and get some white guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

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—<\/p>\n

SIDE B<\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the annual \u201cinside baseball\u201d post.\u00a0 Your name might be in here . . .<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

BLURTS<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n

We interrupt<\/strong><\/span> this blog to tell you this blog is four years old.<\/p>\n

First off, thanks to the major comment writers.<\/p>\n

In no particular order, thanks to Marc, Jessica, Gerald Ross<\/a>, Seth, Gerry Kanter, Ted, Adrianne Greenbaum<\/a>, Bill Jones, Mark Schilling<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

David, Irwin Weinberger<\/a>, Jack<\/a>, Don Friedman, Alice, Ken Goldberg, Steven Greenman<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

Charlie B, Ben Cohen, David Korn, Jack Valancy, Ari Davidow<\/a> and B Katz . . .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Special thanks<\/strong><\/span> to Ralph Solonitz<\/a>. I encourage him to draw as many pics as possible.\u00a0 Works out well.\u00a0 I met Ralph about 22 years ago when he designed Yiddishe Cup\u2019s logo.\u00a0 That\u2019s still your best logo, Ralph.<\/p>\n

I have an essay, “Renting the American Dream,” in the latest City Journal<\/em>, which will be online soon. Also, CoolCleveland.com runs Klezmer Guy blurts regularly.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a blurt (Carma<\/a>) from today’s CoolCle.\u00a0 My older son left his car at the Rapid Transit parking lot for two months.\u00a0 Check the story out.\u00a0 It’s funny.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Please see<\/strong><\/span> the \u201ccategories\u201d listing on the right side of this blog.\u00a0 I recently added a new category, 13 BEST POSTS, as judged by me.<\/p>\n

\u201cCategories\u201d<\/span> is also a good place to read 78 posts in a row about real estate.\u00a0 Spend a couple weeks reading archived posts!<\/p>\n

No doubt I could increase my comments tally by writing \u201cthanks\u201d or \u201chi\u201d after every comment.\u00a0\u00a0 But I have standards.<\/p>\n

And they are low. When I stumble upon a new blog, I immediately read the posts with the most comments and feel guilty about that.<\/p>\n

The bell rings, round five.<\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote\u00a0<\/span> Carma<\/a><\/span> for today’s CoolClevelandcom e-blast.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam and Frank — Cleveland cops — grew up on E. 79th Street and St. Clair Avenue. Sam said, \u201cI\u2019m going to have a silver wedding anniversary and invite my three ex-wives.\u201d Frank said, \u201cIf you and the\u00a0commander — plus your exes — get together, you\u2019ll need the FOP Hall.\u201d Frank said, \u201cI remember when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cops-and-robbers","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14768,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}