{"id":5493,"date":"2011-09-14T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:18:48","slug":"the-vanity-of-klezmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/the-vanity-of-klezmer\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VANITY OF KLEZMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/klezmer-plate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5494\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"klezmer plate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/klezmer-plate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/klezmer-plate-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/klezmer-plate.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I could get<\/strong><\/span> the Ohio<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> klezmer <\/span> vanity plate.<\/p>\n<p>In Chicago, a musician from the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has the Illinois <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">klezmer.<\/span>\u00a0 I saw the Illinois plate on the cover of a Maxwell Street CD.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">klezmer <\/span> is taken in New York.\u00a0 I saw New York<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> klezmer <\/span>in the KlezKamp parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> klezmer<\/span> is available, according to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Do I want<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">klezmer<\/span>?\u00a0 What if I cut somebody off; they&#8217;ll know it\u2019s me.\u00a0 (I remember getting cut off by<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> ezras.<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>What if I\u2019m checking out a potential tenant, and\u00a0 I\u2019m parked by the guy\u2019s sleazy mini-market on West 25th Street, and he comes out and has an anti-klezmer \u2019tude.<\/p>\n<p>I remember<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> mazel<\/span> on Fairmount Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I\u2019ve seen<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> yenta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> gevalt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Ohio\u2019s newest license plate, you practically need a microscope to find the OHIO.\u00a0Why does the state devalue <em>Ohio <\/em>so much?\u00a0 <em>Ohio<\/em> is pretty catchy compared to other states. \u00a0 How would you like to live in Maryland?<\/p>\n<p>oHIo.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my gift to the BMV.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Ohio first <\/strong><strong>cluttered<\/strong><\/span> its plates in 1973 with <em>Seat Belts Fastened?<\/em>\u00a0 That innocent public service opened the doors to <em>Birthplace of Aviation, Bicentennial 2003 <\/em>and<em> Beautiful <\/em><em>Ohio<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OHIO in big block letters would work.\u00a0 If the BMV ever goes retro, back to\u00a0 block OHIO, 1950s-style, I would seriously consider<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> klezmer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I want a plate I can nail to the side of the barn and be proud of.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<small> Footnote: Jewish license plates in California are well-documented, <em>per<\/em> this video:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QRyVMr9fKw8?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could get the Ohio klezmer vanity plate. In Chicago, a musician from the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has the Illinois klezmer.\u00a0 I saw the Illinois plate on the cover of a Maxwell Street CD. klezmer is taken in New York.\u00a0 I saw New York klezmer in the KlezKamp parking lot. Ohio klezmer is available, [&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-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","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=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8680,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/8680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}