{"id":541,"date":"2009-06-29T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:17:43","slug":"walk-tall-walkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Walk Tall Walkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thirty short years ago, the scene changed. Happy birthday, Walkman!<\/p>\n

This kid<\/a> wore one for a week and wrote a little report (remembering to use lots of big words like “plethora” and “aesthetically.” Kids have to prove that they’re adults).<\/p>\n

The most best line was: “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”<\/p>\n

I love that.<\/p>\n

The nextest best line was: “I’m relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born.”<\/p>\n

That shows a lack of perception and perspective that only a kid could have. He has no idea that today’s iPod will look clumsy and antique to his own kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty short years ago, the scene changed. Happy birthday, Walkman! This kid wore one for a week and wrote a little report (remembering to use lots of big words like “plethora” and “aesthetically.” Kids have to prove that they’re adults). The most best line was: “It took me three days to figure out that there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}