{"id":450,"date":"2009-07-22T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T11:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2012-03-31T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T21:16:57","slug":"country-clubbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/country-clubbed\/","title":{"rendered":"COUNTRY CLUBBED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>At the cushy, soft-seat auditorium gigs, <\/strong><\/span>Yiddishe Cup gets &#8220;green room&#8221; meals and people ask for our autographs.\u00a0 At country club weddings, we enter through kitchens and are often treated like crumb bums.<\/p>\n<p>Country club managers have thankless jobs.\u00a0 They are either dishing out vitriol to the help, or receiving it from the members.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re paying the county club manager, you&#8217;re golden.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not paying the manager, you&#8217;re not. \u00a0Everybody knows his or her place in a country club.\u00a0 Except the musicians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The musicians, in the hierarchy of wedding gigs, <\/strong><\/span>think they&#8217;re <em>machers<\/em> \u2014 a notch above the kitchen help, florist, photographer, video guy, and even the club members.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody else sees it that way.<\/p>\n<p>My drummer\u2014number two\u2014said he was a &#8220;professional&#8221; whenever club managers and party planners pestered him.\u00a0 He had a PhD in music.\u00a0He could take that PhD \u00a0&#8220;down the hall, turn left, make a right&#8221; . . . and use the storage room there.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8212;-<br \/>\n2 of 2 posts for 7\/22\/09<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the cushy, soft-seat auditorium gigs, Yiddishe Cup gets &#8220;green room&#8221; meals and people ask for our autographs.\u00a0 At country club weddings, we enter through kitchens and are often treated like crumb bums. Country club managers have thankless jobs.\u00a0 They are either dishing out vitriol to the help, or receiving it from the members. If [&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-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8990,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/8990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}