{"id":20798,"date":"2016-05-11T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20798"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:24:32","slug":"nancy-the-eccentric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/nancy-the-eccentric\/","title":{"rendered":"NANCY THE ECCENTRIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/umbrella-nancy-the-eccentric-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"umbrella nancy the eccentric\" width=\"261\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/umbrella-nancy-the-eccentric-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/umbrella-nancy-the-eccentric.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Nancy Hoffman<\/span><\/strong> changed her middle name from Arlene to &#8220;3.&#8221; Nancy runs the Umbrella Cover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UmbrellaCoverMuseum\/\">Museum<\/a> in Peaks Island, Maine, and does \u201ceccentric artistry\u201d (to quote her website). Nancy also plays accordion in the Casco Bay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascobaytummlers.com\/\">Tummlers<\/a> klezmer band and is a friend of Avner the Eccentric.<\/p>\n<p>I was at Nancy&#8217;s book-signing in Cleveland for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Uncovered-Exposed-WORLDS-Umbrella-Museum\/dp\/1449905919\">Uncovered <\/a>and Exposed: A Guide to the World\u2019s Only Umbrella Cover Museum. <\/em>Nancy kept a ledger of her book sales. That didn&#8217;t seem eccentric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays for the community-wide Yom Ha&#8217;atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandjewishnews.com\/news\/local_news\/israeli-singing-star-rita-promises-music-that-heals-at-yom\/article_ed9a3320-1211-11e6-86d2-3b56b4cece68.html\">celebration<\/a> tomorrow evening (Thurs., May 12) at Landerhaven, Cleveland.\u00a0 Free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happy-tips-klez-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"happy tips  klez\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happy-tips-klez-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happy-tips-klez.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Hoffman changed her middle name from Arlene to &#8220;3.&#8221; Nancy runs the Umbrella Cover Museum in Peaks Island, Maine, and does \u201ceccentric artistry\u201d (to quote her website). Nancy also plays accordion in the Casco Bay Tummlers klezmer band and is a friend of Avner the Eccentric. I was at Nancy&#8217;s book-signing in Cleveland for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798","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=20798"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24449,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions\/24449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}