{"id":20275,"date":"2016-08-31T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20275"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:51:52","slug":"in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/31\/in-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"IN REVERSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I grew up<\/strong><\/span> in New York and never liked it there. I went to college in Ohio. I&#8217;m never going back east. To do what? Live in Williamsburg and write a blog about beer?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24113 size-medium\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/great-names-in-rental-biz.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My roommate at Kenyon College took me to his hometown, Shaker Heights, a couple times. Cleveland has lawns and you don&#8217;t pay $2000\/month for a one-bedroom apartment. I moved there. I have a one-bedroom for $850. Tricked out too &#8212; marble counter tops and a dishwasher. My dad thinks I\u2019m crazy. He said I should enroll in accounting school at NYU<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I work in property management in Cleveland. I&#8217;ve gone back to New York once. I can&#8217;t stand it. Going to the deli for a sandwich is a major deal &#8212; the crowds, the lines, the elevator. People say I&#8217;m going the wrong way. Wrong! I am Jay Gatz in reverse. For a million dollars I could buy almost all of Cleveland. And I will.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<small><em>fiction<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in New York and never liked it there. I went to college in Ohio. I&#8217;m never going back east. To do what? Live in Williamsburg and write a blog about beer? My roommate at Kenyon College took me to his hometown, Shaker Heights, a couple times. Cleveland has lawns and you don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24668,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275\/revisions\/24668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}