{"id":25873,"date":"2018-08-15T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=25873"},"modified":"2018-08-15T08:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:16:46","slug":"death-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/15\/death-training\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATH TRAINING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My younger<\/strong><\/span> son recommended I try a flotation tank in California. You climb into a flotation capsule that feels like an MRI tube, but it&#8217;s filled with several inches of salt water. There\u2019s music, and then the lights go out, and the music goes off, too. You float on your back in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find the exit handle and panicked. But when I finally found the handle, I settled in and kept my hand on the exit lever. I counted down from 100. That flotation tank in Pasadena was an acquired taste. Not much going on in there. It was death training.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bert-tombstone-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"bert tombstone\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bert-tombstone-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bert-tombstone-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bert-tombstone-1024x1011.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Funk a Deli \/ Yidd Cup on the lawn tomorrow (7 pm Thurs., Aug. 16) at John Carroll U., University Hts., Ohio. Free. Free ice cream, too. If raining, we&#8217;re indoors at the Dolan Science Center. (Some PR says &#8220;indoors at the O&#8217;Malley Center,&#8221; but that&#8217;s incorrect.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"funk a deli\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/funk-a-deli.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My younger son recommended I try a flotation tank in California. You climb into a flotation capsule that feels like an MRI tube, but it&#8217;s filled with several inches of salt water. There\u2019s music, and then the lights go out, and the music goes off, too. You float on your back in the dark. 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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873","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=25873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25873\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}