{"id":26810,"date":"2020-09-09T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26810"},"modified":"2020-11-04T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T14:06:31","slug":"shoot-me-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/09\/shoot-me-later\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOOT ME LATER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My friend<\/strong><\/span> Mike said he wouldn\u2019t mind being shot dead at the restaurant. We were at Barrio, Cleveland Heights. Mike said, \u201cI\u2019ve had a good life and I don\u2019t want to suffer.\u201d Mike is 68. His dad is 99 and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>I <i>would<\/i> mind getting shot to death. I want to see my kids get married, see a grandkid, go to more <em>simchas<\/em>, play more <em>simchas,<\/em> see more Vulfpeck shows, play more nursing-home gigs, and sit on my porch.<\/p>\n<p>Nursing homes? Nursing homes are cool &#8212; the ones I&#8217;ve played at. Nobody sits in doo doo, and the residents hear quality live music. (Pre-Covid, that is. I&#8217;ve played some outdoor gigs at nursing homes this summer.) I&#8217;ve jammed with talented musicians at nursing homes. They do their schtick in one room, and I&#8217;m in another, and then I crash their gig and join them on clarinet. I\u00a0just jump in. I should ask before I sit in, but sometimes I forget.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Once I<\/strong> <\/span>busted in on a pianist playing &#8220;Blue Rondo a la Turk.&#8221; I had no idea how that tune went, but I played anyway. I apologized later. He didn&#8217;t shoot me, but maybe he wanted to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Mike said he wouldn\u2019t mind being shot dead at the restaurant. We were at Barrio, Cleveland Heights. Mike said, \u201cI\u2019ve had a good life and I don\u2019t want to suffer.\u201d Mike is 68. His dad is 99 and suffering. I would mind getting shot to death. I want to see my kids get [&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-26810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810","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=26810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28245,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26810\/revisions\/28245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}