{"id":28754,"date":"2021-08-19T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28754"},"modified":"2021-09-13T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:23:31","slug":"skunks-are-bad-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/skunks-are-bad-people\/","title":{"rendered":"SKUNKS ARE BAD PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><be><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Skunks are<\/strong> <\/span>bad people. I hired Critter Control to deal with some skunks at my house. The Critter Control\u00a0tech liked my collection of Jewish-star necklaces (Purim bling) in my basement.\u00a0He said he was Jewish.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know much about the ritual and all that, but my mother was Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you say you\u2019re Jewish, that\u2019s good enough for me,\u201d I said.\u00a0And get rid of the skunks! He set a trap under the front stoop and sold me a can of Odor Assassin for $15.\u00a0Three squirts of the spray masked the skunk smell in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>When my bandmates came over for rehearsal, the basement smelled pretty good &#8212; lemon-lime fresh. But the skunks then decided to do a raid during rehearsal. I thought Yiddishe Cup would disband right then and there.\u00a0I said to my bandmates, \u201cLet me get out my\u00a0Odor Assassin.\u00a0It\u2019ll only take five years off our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The band<\/strong> <\/span>played\u00a0on. The skunks are gone. I endorse Odor Assassin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skunks are bad people. I hired Critter Control to deal with some skunks at my house. The Critter Control\u00a0tech liked my collection of Jewish-star necklaces (Purim bling) in my basement.\u00a0He said he was Jewish.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI don\u2019t know much about the ritual and all that, but my mother was Jewish.\u201d \u201cIf you say you\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754","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=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29060,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}