{"id":1178,"date":"2011-03-17T21:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:47:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:47:36","slug":"shit-my-father-used-to-say-when-he-was-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Shit My Father Used to Say When He Was Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d gotten back from Spain and was really fascinated by this one whacky thing I’d discovered.\u00a0 You know what they call beans in Spain?\u00a0 It ain’t habichuelas<\/em>.\u00a0 It’s not frijoles<\/em> either.<\/p>\n

It’s jud\u00edas<\/em>:\u00a0 Jewish females! No shit. Green beans are jud\u00edas verdes<\/em>, which could be translated as green Jewish women.<\/em> I discovered this fact on a train ride from Madrid to Barcelona, where I made the young woman behind the counter in the snack car show me a packet because I couldn’t quite believe the menu.<\/p>\n

So vacation over, I stopped by to see my folks and mentioned it to my father.<\/p>\n

“Isn’t that weird,” I said.\u00a0 “I mean where does that<\/em> come from?”<\/p>\n

“You know, he said, “They’ve been a second rate country ever since they kicked us out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d gotten back from Spain and was really fascinated by this one whacky thing I’d discovered.\u00a0 You know what they call beans in Spain?\u00a0 It ain’t habichuelas.\u00a0 It’s not frijoles either. It’s jud\u00edas:\u00a0 Jewish females! No shit. Green beans are jud\u00edas verdes, which could be translated as green Jewish women. I discovered this fact on … Continue reading Shit My Father Used to Say When He Was Alive<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[291,289,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}