{"id":21351,"date":"2016-06-29T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21351"},"modified":"2016-06-19T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T14:19:51","slug":"vase-smasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/vase-smasher\/","title":{"rendered":"VASE SMASHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>A musician<\/strong><\/span> broke a vase at a wedding. He walked right into the vase before the ceremony, before anybody arrived. Many vases lined the wedding aisle. The musician said to the florist, \u201cI\u2019ll pay,&#8221; and the florist went to her warehouse and got another vase.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, the florist called me and asked for $50. She said, \u201cYour musician didn&#8217;t pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I gave the florist the musician\u2019s number and said, \u201cI think the host &#8212; the bride\u2019s family &#8212; should pay for it. That was one fancy wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cReally, who<\/strong><\/span> do<em> you<\/em> want to pay for it?&#8221; she said. \u201c<em>He<\/em> walked into it. There were 300 people at that wedding and he was the one who walked into a vase. It\u2019s $50 &#8212; my cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The musician called me: &#8220;I said I&#8217;d pay for it, but what do you think I should do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou said you\u2019d pay for it, so I guess you should pay for it. Or better yet, call the mom of the bride. She loved us. She\u2019ll probably pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The next<\/strong><\/span> day I\u00a0 checked in with the musician. \u201cDid you call the mom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She would have paid!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vase-smasher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vase-smasher-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"vase smasher\" width=\"268\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vase-smasher-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vase-smasher.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A musician broke a vase at a wedding. He walked right into the vase before the ceremony, before anybody arrived. Many vases lined the wedding aisle. The musician said to the florist, \u201cI\u2019ll pay,&#8221; and the florist went to her warehouse and got another vase. Two days later, the florist called me and asked for [&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-21351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351","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=21351"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24553,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions\/24553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}