{"id":28091,"date":"2021-07-28T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:23:02","slug":"pivoting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/28\/pivoting\/","title":{"rendered":"PIVOTING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Klezmer <\/em>is<\/span><\/strong> a clich\u00e9d term. I don’t use it. I don’t even play klezmer. My new album is No Name — <\/em>no label, no religion too. I like to eat. My religion is pastrami. My next album is going to be Thank You for Your Kindnesses,\u00a0 I’m Out of Here. <\/em>When I told my wife I’m leaving Judaism, she said, \u201cQue maravilla!” She studies Spanish online and wants to move to Latin America.<\/p>\n

She’s thinking about Guatemala. I like guacamole so I’m OK with that. As for the klezmer scene down there, it’s shvach<\/em> (weak). I ran into a couple Israelis in Guat in April, but they didn’t like my klez. (I always travel with a student-model clarinet.) The Israelis liked my “Bashana Haba’ah,” though.<\/p>\n

I won’t busk on the streets of Guat. Wouldn’t be a good look: a rich gringo tourist asking for pesos — or whatever they call their money — from the locals. Could wind up in jail.<\/p>\n

Also, internet reception isn’t too reliable down there. You may never hear from me again.<\/p>\n

[fake profile]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

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I wrote some real essays this week . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. an article <\/a>in USA Today<\/em> about throwing stuff out. How I’m tired of reading articles that begin with “Millennials don’t want Grandma’s china.”\n
  2. a diaTribe<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> about the Cleveland Indians changing their name to the Guardians.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Klezmer is a clich\u00e9d term. I don’t use it. I don’t even play klezmer. My new album is No Name — no label, no religion too. I like to eat. My religion is pastrami. My next album is going to be Thank You for Your Kindnesses,\u00a0 I’m Out of Here. When I told my wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091","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=28091"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29046,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions\/29046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}