{"id":29711,"date":"2022-05-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29711"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:52:32","slug":"basic-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/25\/basic-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"BASIC STUFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>In my<\/strong><\/span> 30s I kvetched about not living in New York, or someplace else equally glamorous. And I judged people by their tastes in music and their bumper stickers, and where they lived. I&#8217;ve given up on all that.<\/p>\n<p>In my 20s I was bad, too. I hung around with Harvey Pekar, who said to me: \u201cI\u2019m hateful. I\u2019d like to have a cool way to slip my George Ade article [published in a local magazine] to my ex-wife [an academic]. She\u2019s small-minded.\u201d Pekar had a lot of bitterness. Worse than me. It was cool to be cynical and pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on that &#8212; the opposite. Not being cynical and pissed off.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Getting married<\/strong><\/span> and staying married was my best move. Starting the klezmer band was another good move. Having kids was a terrific move. The rest is commentary, and I don\u2019t mean <em>Commentary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays a free outdoor concert at the Cedar Fairmount district, Cleveland Hts. 6:30-8:30 pm Thurs., June 9, in the parking lot in back of Firestone, 12420 Cedar Rd. Bring a tire iron and be ready to rumble. We&#8217;ll play klezmer and soul music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/yiddishe-cup-5_22_22-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"yiddishe cup 5_22_22\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/yiddishe-cup-5_22_22-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/yiddishe-cup-5_22_22-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/yiddishe-cup-5_22_22-1024x831.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my 30s I kvetched about not living in New York, or someplace else equally glamorous. And I judged people by their tastes in music and their bumper stickers, and where they lived. I&#8217;ve given up on all that. In my 20s I was bad, too. I hung around with Harvey Pekar, who said to [&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-29711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29711","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=29711"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29810,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29711\/revisions\/29810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}