{"id":26096,"date":"2018-12-12T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:31:09","slug":"somewhat-disreputable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/12\/somewhat-disreputable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMEWHAT DISREPUTABLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martin Amis<\/strong><\/span> said being in his father’s business (writing) was somewhat disreputable. Martin Amis wrote, \u201cBeing a hereditary novelist is a freaky thing, and people do find it a bit creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are some other hereditary artists, and personalities, who are a bit creepy: Ravi Coltrane, Ben Cheever, Katie Roiphe, Ben Stiller, Dweezil Zappa, George W. Bush, A.G. Sulzberger. All schmucks! Yes, that’s an extreme reaction. I’m envious.<\/p>\n

A college friend said to me — about my family’s real estate business — \u201cI wish I had a business to pass on to my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But a <\/strong>family<\/span><\/span> business is so unglamorous (think carpet sales, plumbing supplies) that there is nothing to get envious about, so don’t get envious. I just read the Ratner family real estate biz, Forest City, finally imploded after four generations. Everybody wants to be a novelist. Well, at least one Ratner — Austin Ratner — is a novelist.<\/p>\n

One exception to all the above: If your father is a regional musician, and your son becomes a nationally known musician, that’s called roots and is very acceptable. Joe Lovano’s father was a sax player in Cleveland. Joel Grey’s father, Mickey Katz, was a clarinetist in Cleveland. Clarinetist Ken Peplowski’s father played in a polka band in Cleveland. That’s all very admirable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Martin Amis said being in his father’s business (writing) was somewhat disreputable. Martin Amis wrote, \u201cBeing a hereditary novelist is a freaky thing, and people do find it a bit creepy.\u201d Here are some other hereditary artists, and personalities, who are a bit creepy: Ravi Coltrane, Ben Cheever, Katie Roiphe, Ben Stiller, Dweezil Zappa, George […]<\/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-26096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096","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=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26099,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions\/26099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}