{"id":26886,"date":"2020-06-10T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26886"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:32:08","slug":"small-tough-jews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/small-tough-jews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SMALL TOUGH JEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">The small<\/span> <\/strong>tough Jews at my high school were wrestlers, except for Reed Klein the gymnast. The school had no gymnastics team. Reed was a one-man team. He went on to the Ohio State gymnastics team. The other<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> small tough Jews were Harry Kramer and Steve Gold.\u00a0They wrestled in low weight classes, like 93 pounds and 103 pounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My wife<\/span> dated a wrestler in high school. My younger son wrestled in middle school. Jack was small and, at most, semi-tough. The matches were primal &#8212; two or three minutes of animal behavior in a stinky windowless wrestling room. The matches were scary and scarring.\u00a0And I was just watching.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I never<\/strong> <\/span>wrestled, except in gym. I didn\u2019t like singlets or other guys\u2019 armpits.\u00a0I didn\u2019t like headlocks either, unless Bobo Brazil was giving one to Lord Layton and it was 1960. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small tough Jews at my high school were wrestlers, except for Reed Klein the gymnast. The school had no gymnastics team. Reed was a one-man team. He went on to the Ohio State gymnastics team. The other small tough Jews were Harry Kramer and Steve Gold.\u00a0They wrestled in low weight classes, like 93 pounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kinder-the","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886","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=26886"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27748,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26886\/revisions\/27748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}