{"id":22,"date":"2009-05-13T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:59:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T21:59:32","slug":"according-to-the-talmud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/according-to-the-talmud\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCORDING TO THE TALMUD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>At about one-third of my gigs, <\/strong><\/span>the client forgets her checkbook.  These clients are all wound up in the <em>simcha<\/em> (wedding or bar mitzvah) and don&#8217;t have &#8220;paying the band&#8221; on their minds.  According to the Talmud, day-laborers are supposed to get paid the same day they work.  Doesn&#8217;t always work that way.<\/p>\n<p>I pay the band anyhow.  Like clockwork, twice a month.<\/p>\n<p>Money and music go together, particularly with a bunch of middle-aged musicians.  If you <em>have<\/em> kids, you don&#8217;t have the luxury of starving to death.  Nobody in Yiddishe Cup is a doctor.  Everybody thinks a klez band is full of dilettante musicians who are doctors and lawyers.  Not true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about one-third of my gigs, the client forgets her checkbook. These clients are all wound up in the simcha (wedding or bar mitzvah) and don&#8217;t have &#8220;paying the band&#8221; on their minds. According to the Talmud, day-laborers are supposed to get paid the same day they work. Doesn&#8217;t always work that way. I pay [&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-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}