{"id":27786,"date":"2020-09-02T07:27:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=27786"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T13:12:33","slug":"more-of-a-desk-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/more-of-a-desk-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE OF A DESK GUY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>In 1938,<\/strong><\/span> when my father graduated college, he wanted a job &#8212; any job. When I graduated college in 1973, I wanted meaningful work. M<em>eaningful work &#8212;<\/em> the expression &#8212; I first heard from Lawrence Kasdan, <em>The Big Chill<\/em> director. (By the way, <em>The Big Chill<\/em> was a total ripoff of <em>Return of the Secaucus 7<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>I tried bricklaying. I got a joiner, mortar and a mason\u2019s trowel. I knew a Jewish bricklayer who talked up the profession, and he showed me a few things. This was before YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>My father said, \u201cYou want to work with your hands?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>It turns <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">out, I didn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/span> I&#8217;m more of a desk guy. I like to keep records. I have records on most everything. I know how long ink rollers last in my adding machine. One year, almost to the date. I wrote dates on lightbulbs. That, I&#8217;ve given up. Life is short. Life, itself, lasts . . . uh, varies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1938, when my father graduated college, he wanted a job &#8212; any job. When I graduated college in 1973, I wanted meaningful work. Meaningful work &#8212; the expression &#8212; I first heard from Lawrence Kasdan, The Big Chill director. (By the way, The Big Chill was a total ripoff of Return of the Secaucus [&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-27786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786","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=27786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28033,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions\/28033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}