{"id":30058,"date":"2022-10-26T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30058"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:46:17","slug":"more-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/26\/more-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE ABOUT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I placed<\/strong><\/span> high in a couple math contests. Nationwide stuff. I&#8217;ve told you this before but it bears repeating. I got offers to attended workshops at U. of Chicago, MIT and other colleges. This was in high school. I went off to U. of Rochester one summer and got my gonads scraped by some smart kids there. After that, I became modest.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the Stones, Beatles, Dylan. Everybody. Janis Joplin. James Cotton. For the record.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Rochester for college. That was a long time ago. I&#8217;m not sure where Rochester is anymore.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My parents?<\/strong><\/span> My mom wanted a career in show biz. That wasn\u2019t going to happen in Cleveland, but she did do some community theater. She wanted NYC. She got there on a couple vacations. My dad &#8212; you know about him from this blog. My brother? He doesn\u2019t want any ink. Respect.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>(fiction)<\/small><\/em><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Here&#8217;s my <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/opinion\/2022\/10\/zagaras-is-becoming-daves-but-what-will-become-of-my-wheat-berry-salad-bert-stratton.html\">essay <\/a>in today&#8217;s Cleveland <em>Plain Dealer. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">What will become of my wheat berry salad? <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Dave&#8217;s supermarket is taking over Zagara&#8217;s supermarket in Cleveland Heights. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I placed high in a couple math contests. Nationwide stuff. I&#8217;ve told you this before but it bears repeating. I got offers to attended workshops at U. of Chicago, MIT and other colleges. This was in high school. I went off to U. of Rochester one summer and got my gonads scraped by some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30058","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=30058"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30234,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30058\/revisions\/30234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}