{"id":21946,"date":"2015-07-08T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21946"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:36:34","slug":"ovation-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/ovation-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"OVATION OF CALIFORNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My dad<\/strong><\/span> had a cosmetics franchise similar to Mary Kay. It was Ovation of California. My mother went to Los Angeles to learn more about it, and when she returned, she dumped a box of cosmetics onto the dining room table. My sister got the cosmetics, and I got a shoehorn from the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>My sister held up her diary. \u201cLook what your darling son did to my diary while you were gone,&#8221; she said. I had cut the lock off her diary. Big deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/diary-kay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23426\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/diary-kay-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"diary kay\" width=\"369\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/diary-kay-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/diary-kay.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologized,\u201d I said.\u00a0\u00a0 (I was researching petting &#8212; as Ann Landers called making out. I was 13, my sister was 16. I thought she had some info.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My mother<\/strong><\/span> said, \u201cSo you tore open your sister&#8217;s diary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry.&#8221; I bought my sister a new diary.<\/p>\n<p>One more crime: my father put a bottle of Ovation cleansing cream in the bathroom and made me use it. I was supposed to rub the cleanser on my forehead with a cotton ball. \u201cThis is no gimmick,\u201d he said. \u201cMen use it.\u201d\u00a0 My dad tried to turn me into a metrosexual! The franchise went under in a year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays 6:30 pm Sun. (July 12) in Granville, Ohio (near Columbus).\u00a0 More info<a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/business.granvilleoh.com\/events\/details\/concert-on-the-green-yiddishe-cup-klezmer-band-9303\"> here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23438 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/band-of-7-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"band of 7\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/band-of-7-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/band-of-7.jpg 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad had a cosmetics franchise similar to Mary Kay. It was Ovation of California. My mother went to Los Angeles to learn more about it, and when she returned, she dumped a box of cosmetics onto the dining room table. My sister got the cosmetics, and I got a shoehorn from the Beverly Hills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history-not-boring","category-toby-stratton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946","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=21946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23456,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21946\/revisions\/23456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}