{"id":30250,"date":"2022-12-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30250"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T17:30:34","slug":"run-out-to-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/21\/run-out-to-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My wife,<\/strong> <\/span>Alice, went on a road trip with Yiddishe Cup to Buffalo, New York. That was her first one. She had always refused road trips. Alice made two beginner\u2019s mistakes. She talked too much. Talking wears you out. Also, she did not catnap.<\/p>\n<p>We played the gig in Buffalo. The whole undertaking was 13 hours (7 hours driving there and back, and two hours of set up and tear down. Oh, and we played music. Alice did the dance-leading. Alice aged a year that day, she said. She said she had been \u201chit by a truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pace yourself, Alice. Take catnaps. Drink a lot of fluids.&nbsp; Eat an apple.<\/p>\n<p>Same subject, sort of:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I used<\/strong><\/span> to blame Taco Bell for post-gig illnesses. T-Bell was poisoning me. T-Bell was slipping me spoiled tacos.<\/p>\n<p>My migraines were always on Tuesdays after out-of-town gig weekends. I\u2019d return the rental van on Monday morning and dispute fender dings; then go to my real estate job to talk about burst water pipes and late rents.&nbsp; When I\u2019d come home on Monday evenings, my sleep cycle would be all off.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t done a run-out (one-day road trip, no overnight) in a few years. I don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My wife, Alice, went on a road trip with Yiddishe Cup to Buffalo, New York. That was her first one. She had always refused road trips. Alice made two beginner\u2019s mistakes. She talked too much. Talking wears you out. Also, she did not catnap. We played the gig in Buffalo. The whole undertaking was [&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-30250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250","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=30250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30306,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30250\/revisions\/30306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}