{"id":5637,"date":"2009-11-30T10:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:54:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:54:10","slug":"i_got_dreidel_skillz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/i_got_dreidel_skillz.html","title":{"rendered":"I Got Dreidel Skillz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the new economy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/32\/48\/32_48_as_major_league_dreidel.html\">we will barter in chocolate and braggadocio<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The four-sided, Hebrew-letter-covered spinning top typically plays a minor role in the annual Festival of Light, but Williamsburg bar owner Eric Harris Pavony wants to change all that through Major League Dreidel, the first &#8220;professional&#8221; sports &#8220;league&#8221; for the nation&#8217;s top dreidelers.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 12, the second night of Hanukkah, MLD Knishioner Pavony will bring his pros &#8212; and also the arena, the &#8220;Spinagogue&#8221; &#8212; to the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg for an evening of competition the likes of which the world hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen since the days of the Second Temple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MLD validates the dreidel as a bona-fide sport &#8212; and its elite are recognized and respected like professional athletes,&#8221; Pavony said. &#8220;However, they are paid in chocolate money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new economy, we will barter in chocolate and braggadocio: The four-sided, Hebrew-letter-covered spinning top typically plays a minor role in the annual Festival of Light, but Williamsburg bar owner Eric Harris Pavony wants to change all that through Major League Dreidel, the first &#8220;professional&#8221; sports &#8220;league&#8221; for the nation&#8217;s top dreidelers. On Dec. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}