{"id":25785,"date":"2018-07-04T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25785"},"modified":"2018-07-01T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T14:58:47","slug":"signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/04\/signs-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGNS OF THE TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I had <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">a commercial tenant who sold gravestones <\/span><\/span>and pistachios. His main window sign read <em>Porter<\/em> <em>Monuments<\/em> and a smaller sign was <em>Pistachios<\/em>. Not a good sign. He went under.<\/p>\n<p>I had a tenant, the India Food Emporium, which sold Indian spices, Indian bread, Indian music. Then came the Marlboros and malt liquor. Went under.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25788\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/indian-store-08-W-1-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"You want a samosa with that 40?\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/indian-store-08-W-1-292x300.jpg 292w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/indian-store-08-W-1-768x790.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/indian-store-08-W-1-995x1024.jpg 995w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/indian-store-08-W-1.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You want a samosa with that 40?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I got <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">a call from a prospective tenant<\/span><\/span> for a headlight removal business. Not a bad concept; headlights are tricky to remove. The caller corrected me: &#8220;Head <em>lice<\/em>.&#8221; I was still OK with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a commercial tenant who sold gravestones and pistachios. His main window sign read Porter Monuments and a smaller sign was Pistachios. Not a good sign. He went under. I had a tenant, the India Food Emporium, which sold Indian spices, Indian bread, Indian music. Then came the Marlboros and malt liquor. Went under. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785","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=25785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25793,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions\/25793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}