{"id":60,"date":"2009-06-18T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=60"},"modified":"2016-02-03T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:40:21","slug":"the-meshugge-and-mrs-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/the-meshugge-and-mrs-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meshugge &#8230; and Mrs Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/jailhouse_rock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elvis in Jailhouse Rock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/jailhouse_rock.jpg\" alt=\"Elvis in Jailhouse Rock\" width=\"250\" height=\"317\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Who said L.A. has a monopoly on wackiness?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Case #1: \u266b\u266a <em> Rebbe Threw a Party in the County Jail<\/em> \u266a\u266a\u266b<\/p>\n<p>In Lower Manhattan, former fugitive, Tuvia Stern, threw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/12\/nyregion\/12jail.html?_r=1&amp;ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">rollicking jailhouse bar mitzvah<\/a> for his son. He had 60 invited guests, live music &amp; served kosher &#8212; on fine china with metal utensils, of course!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/psycho_1968.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Psycho!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/psycho_1968.jpg\" alt=\"Psycho!\" width=\"300\" height=\"337\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Case #2: Norman! What do you think you&#8217;re doing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dragnut<\/strong> <a title=\"Mother of all scams just gets weirder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2009\/06\/18\/2009-06-18_mother_of_all_scams_just_gets_weirder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Prusik Parkin<\/a> could be a real life <a title=\"Norman Bates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0003067\/\" target=\"_blank\">Norman Bates<\/a>! The Brooklyn man masqueraded as his dead mother to collect millions in benefits and loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who said L.A. has a monopoly on wackiness? Case #1: \u266b\u266a Rebbe Threw a Party in the County Jail \u266a\u266a\u266b In Lower Manhattan, former fugitive, Tuvia Stern, threw a rollicking jailhouse bar mitzvah for his son. He had 60 invited guests, live music &amp; served kosher &#8212; on fine china with metal utensils, of course! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[11512,11511,11510,11513],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-corruption","tag-drag-queen","tag-norman-bates","tag-scams","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}