{"id":19085,"date":"2018-01-10T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=19085"},"modified":"2018-02-14T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T13:14:06","slug":"at-the-pawn-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/10\/at-the-pawn-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"AT THE PAWN SHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The <\/strong><strong>pawn<\/strong><\/span> shop had a lot of flat-screen TVs, fishing poles, amps, guitars and power drills. The store was a man cave, basically, and it was in the inner city. I went there to pick up my band&#8217;s sound equipment. I gave the cashier $774.25 cash. No credit cards or checks accepted. The cashier was behind a bulletproof window. I wore a tie and jacket to impress the shop owner, who I ran into. I said, \u201cI knew your brother. Sorry to hear he passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother is alive,&#8221; the owner said. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>I said, \u201cCould you make it so I don\u2019t have to pay interest on my band equipment? It was brought here without my permission.&#8221; The owner <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">said no<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The owner<\/strong><\/span> disappeared into the backroom but then waved me back to the counter. Reconsidering? \u201cI just read your blog,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I want that shit down in three hours or I\u2019m fucking suing you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/money-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"money\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/money-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/money.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He had<\/span><\/span> read my blog? In a pawn shop in inner-city Cleveland! Apparently he was doing due diligence on his fellow Jew &#8212; me. I had written about pawnshops and cops a couple years ago and said some pawn shops kept sloppy records. This pawn shop owner was thorough. Maybe he would sue me. I deleted the pawn-shop reference as soon as I got home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pawn shop had a lot of flat-screen TVs, fishing poles, amps, guitars and power drills. The store was a man cave, basically, and it was in the inner city. I went there to pick up my band&#8217;s sound equipment. I gave the cashier $774.25 cash. No credit cards or checks accepted. The cashier was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085","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=19085"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25316,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19085\/revisions\/25316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}