{"id":26525,"date":"2019-05-22T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26525"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:11:25","slug":"im-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/im-around\/","title":{"rendered":"I’M AROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This blog <\/strong><\/span>has been around 10 years. Sometimes I think of hanging it up, but then I post a rerun and carry on.\u00a0Over all, I enjoy writing the blog.<\/p>\n

If I hadn’t started the blob, I wouldn’t have had any op-eds in national publications. My first New York Times<\/em> piece\u00a0 — about my mom shopping at Heinen’s — was written for this blog, but then I figured, hey, why not first send it to the Times<\/em> for Mother’s Day. I sent it to “oped@nytimes.com,” and bingo, millions of people read the op-ed, including my ex-girlfriends, long-lost college and high school friends, Obama, Kissinger, and Dylan (or so I imagined).<\/p>\n

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My mother and father at Ohio Stadium, 1959.
Julia and Toby Stratton<\/p><\/div>\n

Some people<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0don\u2019t want to be in this blog. I once showed a friend a rough draft about him, and he said, \u201cI’m a private person. Please don\u2019t run that.” And the piece was all flattery, too. Another time, a woman asked me to delete a post about her because she didn’t want me to be remembered the way I remembered her.<\/p>\n

I started the blob to leave footprints in the sand, as the great Mileti said about his arena at Richfield, Ohio. I wonder if my kids, after I’m gone, will pay GoDaddy to keep the electricity on at this site. I doubt they will, and I don’t blame them. I might quit this blog at any time. Just a heads-up. I don’t owe you a 30-days’ written notice.<\/p>\n

Thanks\u00a0to <\/span>everybody who write comments. Have you noticed how it’s\u00a090-percent guys who comment?<\/p>\n

The hard-boiled<\/strong><\/span> reason I started the blog: to promote Yiddishe Cup’s 2009 CD, Klezmer Guy<\/em>. (Buy the CD here<\/a>.) What’s a CD? What’s a blog?<\/p>\n

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