{"id":25691,"date":"2018-06-06T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25691"},"modified":"2018-06-06T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T13:52:46","slug":"the-odds-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/06\/the-odds-are\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ODDS ARE . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The odds<\/strong><\/span> are actuaries have interesting jobs. What could be better than figuring out the odds on everything? For instance, what are the odds I\u2019ll rent a store a month sooner if I reduce rent $50? What are the odds I\u2019ll get a gig if I reduce the size of the band?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had stores empty for years. I had a barber who wanted to put photos of \u201cfades\u201d in her window. I let her. It was a tough store to rent. She was a Puerto Rican Lesbian cage fighter. She had a couple tattoos on her face, like Mike Tyson. She said she was part Jewish. The odds are you\u2019re not Jewish if you say, \u201cI have some Jew in me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25727\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25727\" class=\"wp-image-25727 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/adelson-dr-lester-c-1960s.-1914-2006.jpg\" alt=\"Me the Landlord? (No, late coroner Lester Adelson)\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me the Landlord? (No, late coroner Lester Adelson)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I rented<\/strong><\/span> to a tattoo parlor the other day. I used to not rent to tat shops. We call the new business a \u201ctattoo shop and art gallery\u201d in the lease. I think it\u2019ll work. Tats are mainstream now. Times change. What are the odds an old Jewish landlord would be OK with tats? 55-45.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Funk a Deli, aka Yidd Cup, is at Cain Park, Cleveland 7 p.m. Sun. June 24. Free. No tix necessary. Michael Wex is the emcee. Guests artists are Steve Greenman, Kathy Sebo, Shawn Fink and Greg Selker. We&#8217;re gonna burn down Cain Park with klez and soul.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11851\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11851\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11851\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/st-ed-rice-b26-10_09-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gonna burn down Cain Park with klez and soul.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/st-ed-rice-b26-10_09-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/st-ed-rice-b26-10_09-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/st-ed-rice-b26-10_09-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gonna burn down Cain Park with klez and soul.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds are actuaries have interesting jobs. What could be better than figuring out the odds on everything? For instance, what are the odds I\u2019ll rent a store a month sooner if I reduce rent $50? What are the odds I\u2019ll get a gig if I reduce the size of the band? I\u2019ve had stores [&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-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","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=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25735,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions\/25735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}