{"id":28261,"date":"2021-07-21T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28261"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:22:30","slug":"is-it-rolling-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/21\/is-it-rolling-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"IS IT ROLLING, BOB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">When I<\/span><\/strong> audiotaped my parents at dinner in 1973, I told my dad I was doing cinema verite. Don\u2019t knock it. Louis Armstrong did a lot of audiotaping. Decades later, I played my 1973 audiotape for my adult children. My son Ted said, \u201cYou\u2019re weird, recording everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the tape, my parents asked me questions about my college roommates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19436\" title=\"cassette 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cassette-2-300x203.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cassette-2-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/cassette-2.jpg 837w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For instance, my mother said, &#8220;What is Billy from the dorm doing?&#8221; I stonewalled my mom. Nevertheless, the tape is somewhat interesting, even the silences. As Ed Sanders once said: \u201cThis is the age of investigation and every citizen must investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want any dessert\u201d &#8212; that kind of thing. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the tape. I hope my kids throw it out. Or I will. I definitely will. There\u2019s a bad sax solo by me on the flip side.<\/p>\n<p>My dad: \u201cWhat the hell you got the tape recorder on for? There\u2019s nothing going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I audiotaped my parents at dinner in 1973, I told my dad I was doing cinema verite. Don\u2019t knock it. Louis Armstrong did a lot of audiotaping. Decades later, I played my 1973 audiotape for my adult children. My son Ted said, \u201cYou\u2019re weird, recording everything.\u201d In the tape, my parents asked me questions [&hellip;]<\/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-28261","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\/28261","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=28261"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29035,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28261\/revisions\/29035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}