{"id":1119,"date":"2013-01-17T14:02:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2013-01-17T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T14:14:46","slug":"the-gas-of-the-week-jewish-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/the-gas-of-the-week-jewish-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gas Of The Week: Jewish Poker (Week 13\/3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting a new creative fun feature on the CCG site: The Gas Of The Week \u2026 but (like my <a title=\"Drone Of The Week\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?page_id=964\">Drone Of The Week<\/a>) not <em>every<\/em> week. Expect to hear all kinds of lighthearted pieces here: sarcastic comments, daft jokes, and anything in between. I am kicking this off with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jewishpoker.m4a\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish Poker<\/a> (opens in a new window, 3 3\/4 minutes of music in the iTunes format. about 4 MB).<\/p>\n<p>Please, before anybody accuses me of a cultural slur: Note that Jewish Poker was invented by the Israeli writer Ephraim Kishon as an attempt to bring the reader closer to understanding the Jewish soul. The basic rules are simple: Each player thinks of a number &#8211; the player with the highest number wins. But it is not always as straight forward as one might expect. You may like to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephraimkishon.de\/en\/my_favorite_stories.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kishon&#8217;s original story<\/a> (opens in a new window)<\/p>\n<p>All the sounds you hear in this piece, with the exception of the beat, are made from numbers and sometimes the corresponding units (percent, Euro, etc.) which I had I cut out of a news broadcast -.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am starting a new creative fun feature on the CCG site: The Gas Of The Week \u2026 but (like my Drone Of The Week) not every week. Expect to hear all kinds of lighthearted pieces here: sarcastic comments, daft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/the-gas-of-the-week-jewish-poker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}