{"id":1040,"date":"2010-01-06T09:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-01-01T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:03:33","slug":"days-of-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/days-of-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1041\" title=\"Grandpa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/grandpa.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I remember my first &#8220;record player&#8221;.<\/strong> My siblings and I shared two suitcase box-type turntables: my younger brother and I claimed one that had an orange leatherette finish and my older sister had a patriotic red, white and blue-striped one.<\/p>\n<p>Between my brother and I, our vinyl library consisted of maybe four records \u2013 no music, just stories. We spun our little 45s so often that it didn&#8217;t take long for those cheap turntables to really show their age.<\/p>\n<p>Like most inexperienced spinners, we were taping pennies to the head of the play arm just so the needle would stay in the track. It wasn&#8217;t long before you heard more of the static and popping from dust and scratches than the actual recording. The fun officially ended when the record player my brother and I shared slid off the bed and smashed to pieces on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember my first &#8220;record player&#8221;. My siblings and I shared two suitcase box-type turntables: my younger brother and I claimed one that had an orange leatherette finish and my older sister had a patriotic red, white and blue-striped one. Between my brother and I, our vinyl library consisted of maybe four records \u2013 no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[62,229],"tags":[231,230],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-music","tag-ipod","tag-record-player"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}