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What’s the most important element<\/strong><\/span> at a wedding?<\/p>\n Maybe not the band.<\/p>\n After the party, guests often can’t recall if they saw a live band or a DJ.<\/p>\n How many pieces in the band? No idea.<\/p>\n Guests attend parties primarily to schmooze. They dance a bit, they drink a little, they eat a lot, and they talk \u2014 to friends, relatives.<\/p>\n Loud music . . . the bane of all parties. <\/strong><\/span> I was at a family bar mitzvah in Chicago where everybody went into the atrium to talk. The DJ was blasting it.<\/p>\n I have a case of earplugs, 50 of them. Got them in Orrville, Ohio, home of Smucker’s.<\/p>\n I didn’t like the earplugs I was getting at CVS; they’d pop out of my ears because the plugs were too big. The earplugs from Orrville, they’re jelly.<\/p>\n I use orange marmalade.<\/p>\n (The earplugs are actually tiny orange inserts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s the most important element at a wedding? Maybe not the band. After the party, guests often can’t recall if they saw a live band or a DJ. How many pieces in the band? No idea. Guests attend parties primarily to schmooze. They dance a bit, they drink a little, they eat a lot, and […]<\/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-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}