{"id":28098,"date":"2021-04-28T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28098"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:02:00","slug":"the-socially-awkward-boys-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/28\/the-socially-awkward-boys-club\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD
BOYS CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

The Intakes<\/strong><\/span>, a boys club, was a throwback to a Depression-era, settlement-house group. The Intakes met at the Mayfield Road JCC, a successor institution to the Depression-era Council Education Alliance. The Intakes’ purpose was to keep teenage boys off the streets, which wasn\u2019t too hard because, in our case, we studied so hard we rarely went out.<\/p>\n

The Intakes president <\/span>had a regular excuse for not partying on Saturday night: \u201cI\u2019ve got too much homework.\u201d One summer he got a grant to study the crystal structure of molecules at a university. He did his undergrad at MIT, then went on to med school.<\/p>\n

The Intakes didn\u2019t \u201cintake\u201d girls. We played poker, miniature golf, bowled and held meetings. Our advisor was a social worker from New York. He often called us schmucks, which we found endearing. We talked about where to spend our money, earned by selling salamis and Passover macaroons. Should we go to New York or Washington?<\/p>\n

We rode<\/strong> <\/span>the Hound to New York and visited the Statue of Liberty, saw Jeopardy <\/em>live, and ate at Katz\u2019s Deli. I bought Existentialism Versus Marxism <\/em>in a Greenwich Village bookstore. I haven\u2019t finished it yet.<\/p>\n

The Intakes folded after twelfth grade. There are some other ancient-history Jewish boys clubs around town. I heard of one the other day, the Regals. They were from Kinsman. They were a generation older than my guys. The Regals are truly out of business.<\/p>\n

\"intakes

Intakes, 1967. Poker game.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Intakes, a boys club, was a throwback to a Depression-era, settlement-house group. The Intakes met at the Mayfield Road JCC, a successor institution to the Depression-era Council Education Alliance. The Intakes’ purpose was to keep teenage boys off the streets, which wasn\u2019t too hard because, in our case, we studied so hard we rarely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098","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=28098"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28818,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28098\/revisions\/28818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}