{"id":25640,"date":"2018-08-01T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25640"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:16:56","slug":"im-the-bard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/im-the-bard\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M THE BARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I used<\/strong><\/span> to be a drummer. Now I\u2019m a bard. I break it down by letters, not beats. My favorite letters are<em> k<\/em> and <em>l<\/em>, like in <em>glock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A blue jay smoking a cigar &#8212; that&#8217;s an abstraction. A blue jay on a cigar &#8212; that&#8217;s for real. I did wordplay on the drums, but it didn&#8217;t work well. I used to play jazz clubs, weddings, bar mitzvahs. I was embattled &#8212; with myself. I once did a gig where the club owner strew pillows on the floor so the audience could nod out. They did. One guy woke up halfway through my set and yelled, \u201cI hate this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25918\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hypno-klez-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"hypno klez\" width=\"278\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hypno-klez-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hypno-klez.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>I switched to words. Words are tougher than music. The English language is pretty limited with end-rhymes. I hate that <em>tune\/spoon, moon\/June<\/em> shit. At least music keeps you anchored with real-life reminders like &#8220;when\u2019s the call? . . . what\u2019s the pay? . . . food? . . . dress? . . . parking situation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The bard<\/strong><\/span> thing is a challenge. What rhymes with <em>challenge<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a drummer. Now I\u2019m a bard. I break it down by letters, not beats. My favorite letters are k and l, like in glock. A blue jay smoking a cigar &#8212; that&#8217;s an abstraction. A blue jay on a cigar &#8212; that&#8217;s for real. I did wordplay on the drums, but [&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-25640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640","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=25640"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25925,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions\/25925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}