{"id":342,"date":"2003-10-11T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=342"},"modified":"2003-10-11T22:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T01:43:56","slug":"audiotapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Audiotapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>udiotapes. <a href=\"http:\/\/pocketcalculatorshow.com\/walkman\/\">Walkmans<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"tape.jpg\"  style=\"float:right;margin:5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/pics\/misc\/tape.jpg\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n Do they still exist? Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdk.com\/recmedia\/audio\/index.html\">apparently<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonystyle.com\/is-bin\/INTERSHOP.enfinity\/eCS\/Store\/en\/-\/USD\/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=DFX6hCbWH0T6whlepozwj2nG0F3GxeZAs5Q=?ProductID=fjAKC0%2eN_uwAAAD4Hj%2eSJiKx\">they<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumer.philips.com\/global\/b2c\/ce\/catalog\/product.jhtml;jsessionid=W1FN3NJQHEONQCRQNE2RYUYKGBUCWHD0?divId=0&#038;groupId=AUDIO_GR&#038;catId=PORTABLE_AUDIO_CA&#038;subCatId=HEADPHONE_STEREOS_SU&#038;productId=AQ651117\">do <\/a>. For some kind of reason, I think that&#8217;s pretty amazing. As a seventies kid, I was one of those who had a &#8216;Walkman&#8217; and went through puberty buying too many blank tapes and too many <em>records<\/em>. And then the CD boomed, and I remember that was only because everyone was in love (or got in love) with the &#8216;jewel boxes&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>So 20 years later, after I bought my first Walkman (from the Erres brand, and yes, those things were huge then: that&#8217;s why they had a handy beltclip) and carrying it along with me to school, I wonder where time has gone. Slogans like &#8216;Sony Walkmans keep us walking&#8217; have been replaced with &#8216;Rip and Burn Forever&#8217;. Nothing beats growing older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiotapes. Walkmans. Do they still exist? Yes, apparently they do . For some kind of reason, I think that&#8217;s pretty amazing. As a seventies kid, I was one of those who had a &#8216;Walkman&#8217; and went through puberty buying too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}