{"id":25563,"date":"2018-03-28T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25563"},"modified":"2018-07-27T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T12:18:30","slug":"let-bert-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/let-bert-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"LET BERT DO IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My mother, 82,<\/strong><\/span> owns 25 rental units in Cleveland Heights. She wants me to collect rents. I\u2019m reluctant. She hides apartment keys for me everywhere and says, \u201cNow <em>this<\/em> key is to <em>that <\/em>room, which is next to <em>this <\/em>door. Turn right, and reach your hand around the corner and it\u2019s on <em>this<\/em> ledge.\u201d I write it all down. My sister lives in Florida. It\u2019s all on me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24113\" 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\" \/>The other day I bumped into Bert Stratton, the klezmer guy.\u00a0How long has his band been around? They should hang up the Havdalah candle. Bert asks me the same thing every time: \u201cWhat are you going to do when your mother dies?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I tell<\/strong><\/span> him I\u2019ll sell the stupid houses the minute she dies. He says real estate is solid <em>parnassah<\/em>, which means <em>livelihood<\/em> in Yiddish. Bert likes to sling Yiddish.\u00a0Sling this, Bert: <em>Va fangool!<\/em> Bert, you manage the houses after my mom dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother, 82, owns 25 rental units in Cleveland Heights. She wants me to collect rents. I\u2019m reluctant. She hides apartment keys for me everywhere and says, \u201cNow this key is to that room, which is next to this door. Turn right, and reach your hand around the corner and it\u2019s on this ledge.\u201d I [&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-25563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25563","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=25563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25568,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25563\/revisions\/25568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}