{"id":21265,"date":"2015-07-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21265"},"modified":"2015-07-18T07:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:41:26","slug":"i-am-not-a-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/i-am-not-a-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM NOT A SLAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I am<\/strong> <\/span>not a slave to my possessions. I don&#8217;t collect. You can have anything I have. (Exception: my Sharpie retractable markers.) A Yiddishe Cup musician once told he looks forward to his next purchase. He&#8217;s so off-base!<\/p>\n<p>Take my stemware, please.\u00a0 Crystalware means nothing to me. (I&#8217;m hostile toward glass because my mother made me &#8220;dry&#8221; too often.) I accidentally broke a glass at a dinner party while cleaning up. My wife said I should pay the host $30 for the glass. No way!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stemware-broken-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21484 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stemware-broken-glass-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"stemware  broken glass\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stemware-broken-glass-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/stemware-broken-glass.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>This <\/strong><strong>card<\/strong><\/span> also is important to me (and you can&#8217;t have it):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/maris-baseball-card-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21579 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/maris-baseball-card-2.jpg\" alt=\"maris baseball card 2\" width=\"203\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maris 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else is yours.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>One more <\/strong><\/span>thing, you can&#8217;t have my musical instruments. (And I reserve the right to revise this list.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a slave to my possessions. I don&#8217;t collect. You can have anything I have. (Exception: my Sharpie retractable markers.) A Yiddishe Cup musician once told he looks forward to his next purchase. He&#8217;s so off-base! Take my stemware, please.\u00a0 Crystalware means nothing to me. (I&#8217;m hostile toward glass because my mother made [&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-21265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265","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=21265"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23484,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21265\/revisions\/23484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}