{"id":32299,"date":"2024-11-06T06:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=32299"},"modified":"2024-11-23T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:40:09","slug":"precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/06\/precious\/","title":{"rendered":"PRECIOUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>You are<\/strong><\/span> precious. You suck.<\/p>\n<p>You are overrefined and inauthentic.<\/p>\n<p>A cappella music is precious. <em>All<\/em> of it. A friend once told me that. Harvey Pekar called Willio &amp; Phillio precious. (Willio &amp; Phillio were a talented 1980s-era Cleveland comedy\/music group.) Maybe Harvey called Willio &amp; Phillio precious because they were not anti-social like he was.<\/p>\n<p>Willio &amp; Phillio &#8212; the name\u00a0 &#8212; was certainly precious, and they should have changed it. Eventually Will Ryan (Willio) went out to Los Angeles to work for Disney, and Phil Barren (Phillio) became a cantor in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32411\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32411\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mambo-Final-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mambo-Final-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mambo-Final-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mambo-Final-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mambo-Final.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2004<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yiddishe Cup &#8212; hate to say it &#8212; is precious. But only occasionally, like when we say \u201coy vey&#8221; followed by &#8220;ol\u00e9.&#8221; Maybe we should disband.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Peter Laughner,<\/strong><\/span> the Cleveland guitarist, died from drug and alcohol abuse at 24. He was not precious. (He was part of the Pere Ubu underground scene.)<\/p>\n<p>One last thing:<em> You&#8217;re<\/em> precious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You are precious. You suck. You are overrefined and inauthentic. A cappella music is precious. All of it. A friend once told me that. Harvey Pekar called Willio &amp; Phillio precious. (Willio &amp; Phillio were a talented 1980s-era Cleveland comedy\/music group.) Maybe Harvey called Willio &amp; Phillio precious because they were not anti-social like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32299","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=32299"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32424,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32299\/revisions\/32424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}