{"id":19422,"date":"2016-06-01T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2016-06-01T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T12:49:51","slug":"bad-gig-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/01\/bad-gig-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BAD GIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I did<\/strong><\/span> a background-talking gig. I read blog posts at a real estate convention while guests ate salads and drank, and ignored me. I should have played music. I said to the crowd, \u201cHi, I&#8217;m going to tell you how to manage real estate.\u201d\u00a0 The crowd listened for about five seconds, but nobody wanted to hear narrative comedy (a la David Sedaris) during cocktails. Also, I wasn&#8217;t properly introduced. I had to blurt out over the clanging of silverware, &#8220;Hi, everybody!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>That was<\/strong><\/span> my one-and-only background-talking gig. I have, however, done a lot of background-music gigs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/background-talking-gig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/background-talking-gig-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"background talking gig\" width=\"292\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/background-talking-gig-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/background-talking-gig.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2016\/05\/30\/my-son-is-a-sort-of-rock-star-im-glad-i-didnt-discourage-his-dreams\/\">essay<\/a> &#8220;My Son the Sort-of Rock Star&#8221; was<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> in the <em>Washington Post, <\/em>online, on Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24519\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24519\" class=\"wp-image-24519 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alan-jack-bert-05_11-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"All rock stars. (2011 pic)\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alan-jack-bert-05_11-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alan-jack-bert-05_11-768x651.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alan-jack-bert-05_11-1024x868.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/alan-jack-bert-05_11.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which one is the sort-of rock star? (2011 pic)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a background-talking gig. I read blog posts at a real estate convention while guests ate salads and drank, and ignored me. I should have played music. I said to the crowd, \u201cHi, I&#8217;m going to tell you how to manage real estate.\u201d\u00a0 The crowd listened for about five seconds, but nobody wanted to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422","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=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24526,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions\/24526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}