{"id":25875,"date":"2018-09-20T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25875"},"modified":"2018-09-20T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:25:22","slug":"my-first-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/20\/my-first-date\/","title":{"rendered":"MY FIRST DATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I went<\/strong><\/span> out once in high school. It was a fix up, courtesy of my parents. I took out Barbara E. to see <em>Cool Hand Luke<\/em> at the Vogue and then on to Manner\u2019s Big Boy at Van Aken for shakes. My parents knew her parents. I didn\u2019t see her again, although we went to Michigan together, but I never saw her or said hi to her on the Diag, or anything at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25928\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25928\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tennis-bert-stratton-spring-1967-at-brush-high-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"How could you say no to this guy?\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tennis-bert-stratton-spring-1967-at-brush-high-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tennis-bert-stratton-spring-1967-at-brush-high-719x1024.jpg 719w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tennis-bert-stratton-spring-1967-at-brush-high.jpg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bert &#8220;Pancho&#8221; Stratton, 1967<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A couple years ago I was playing tennis in Cleveland, and I saw her father, who is in his 90s. I knew him from my nursing home gigs. Next to him was a young woman (age 66!) in a ski jacket. She was watching the oldsters play doubles. These oldsters were talking to the woman about a nor\u2019easter in Boston. I knew Barbara had moved to Boston after college because I had Googled her. It was her.<\/p>\n<p>I told my tennis partner that Barbara was the first girl I had dated. He didn&#8217;t care. He wanted to play tennis. But I stopped everything and said to her, \u201cWe went out on a date in high school. I&#8217;m Bert Stratton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>&#8220;Really?\u201d<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> she<\/span><\/span> said. I reminded her about <em>Cool Hand Luke<\/em> and the shakes. Really? \u201cI do remember the name Stratton, though,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out once in high school. It was a fix up, courtesy of my parents. I took out Barbara E. to see Cool Hand Luke at the Vogue and then on to Manner\u2019s Big Boy at Van Aken for shakes. My parents knew her parents. I didn\u2019t see her again, although we went 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875","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=25875"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26017,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25875\/revisions\/26017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}