{"id":259,"date":"2009-05-31T06:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-08-01T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T21:13:16","slug":"hold-the-sunrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/hold-the-sunrise\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLD THE SUNRISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>When you&#8217;ve done more than a thousand gigs, <\/strong><\/span>you can safely tell the brides&#8217; moms what&#8217;s what.\u00a0 Only once in a while will you run into a &#8220;play this, play that&#8221; mom. \u00a0\u00a0Or\u00a0 &#8220;My sister wants to sing.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let her!\u00a0 And why are you taking a break right now?&#8221;\u00a0 Micro-managers.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t they have anything better to do on the big day?<\/p>\n<p>All in all, <em>simcha<\/em> (weddings and bar mitzvahs) work is pure pleasure. Most everybody is there to have a good time, and you can sound awful and nobody will notice.\u00a0 You can even rehearse new tunes on the bandstand.\u00a0 As long as you play &#8220;Sunrise Sunset&#8221; \u2014 or don&#8217;t play it, as the case may be \u2014 everybody is happy.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Tomorrow:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">PULL THE TRIGGER . . . Make the Deal.\u00a0 Do it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;ve done more than a thousand gigs, you can safely tell the brides&#8217; moms what&#8217;s what.\u00a0 Only once in a while will you run into a &#8220;play this, play that&#8221; mom. \u00a0\u00a0Or\u00a0 &#8220;My sister wants to sing.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let her!\u00a0 And why are you taking a break right now?&#8221;\u00a0 Micro-managers.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t they have anything [&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-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}