{"id":25700,"date":"2018-07-11T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25700"},"modified":"2018-07-11T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:13:59","slug":"some-things-i-have-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/some-things-i-have-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME THINGS I HAVE LEARNED"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Wear a<\/strong><\/span> bike helmet (even though nobody in Holland does).<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Put air in your car tires regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In my thirties, I kvetched about not living in New York, or someplace else equally glamorous. Now, who cares where you live. When I was young, I judged people by their tastes in music and their bumper stickers. I don\u2019t care about that now.<\/p>\n

    In my twenties, I sometimes wore a tool belt, thinking I was blue-collar. I did some brick pointing, painting, whatever. I didn’t like it.<\/p>\n

    I annoyed<\/strong><\/span> old people for fun. For instance, when my mother-in-law said, \u201cThey\u2019re wearing their hair high in the 1940s look,\u201d I would answer, \u201cWho\u2019s they<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

    She would say, \u201cI don\u2019t have any shoes to wear tonight to the party.\u201d I would say, \u201cYou going barefoot?\u201d<\/p>\n

    \"Harvey

    Harvey Pekar<\/p><\/div>\n

    I hung around with the comic-book writer Harvey Pekar — a bitter guy. He said, \u201cI\u2019m hateful. I\u2019d like to have a cool way to slip my George Ade article [published in a local magazine] to my ex-wife [an academic]. She\u2019s small-minded.” Pekar was more cynical than me. I liked that.<\/p>\n

    Getting married<\/strong><\/span> and staying married was one of my better moves. Starting the klezmer band was another good play. Having kids was a good move. Basic stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wear a bike helmet (even though nobody in Holland does). \u00a0Put air in your car tires regularly. In my thirties, I kvetched about not living in New York, or someplace else equally glamorous. Now, who cares where you live. When I was young, I judged people by their tastes in music and their bumper stickers. […]<\/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-25700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700","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=25700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25839,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25700\/revisions\/25839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}