{"id":25653,"date":"2018-11-28T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25653"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:25:07","slug":"california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/california\/","title":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around the<\/strong> <\/span>time my younger son left for California — about seven years ago — I ran into a 24-year-old San Francisco girl at a shiva<\/em> in Cleveland and told her to meet up with my son in Cali and show him around. I said, \u201cFind him a job, a house, and marry him. I hope I\u2019m not laying too big a trip on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was. She avoided me the rest of the shiva<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My daughter<\/strong> <\/span>(who moved to Chicago about 10 years ago) once told me: \u201cThe kids who go out to California never come back.\u201d My son in Cali said he feels guilty about leaving Cleveland, but not that<\/em> guilty. He is 47-percent homeboy. I — by comparison — am 99.9-percent homeboy. I went to California four times in my twenties and ate a lot of KFC chicken on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley and saw many loose screws on Sproul Plaza, such as a woman who wore a vinyl yellow-and-black Carnaby Street cap all the time. I hitchhiked up to Bolinas and Santa Rosa, and ate a large snail at a marine biology lab in Bodega Bay. My dad told me to move to California. Maybe that’s why I didn’t.<\/p>\n

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Around the time my younger son left for California — about seven years ago — I ran into a 24-year-old San Francisco girl at a shiva in Cleveland and told her to meet up with my son in Cali and show him around. I said, \u201cFind him a job, a house, and marry him. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age","category-kinder-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653","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=25653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26086,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions\/26086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}