{"id":239,"date":"2010-02-21T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T05:44:32","slug":"audio-ephemera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Audio ephemera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about finished digitizing my old reel-to-reel audio tapes. Check out this weird blurb I found on the back of one of the tape boxes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Sammy_Davis_Jr_Show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Sammy_Davis_Jr_Show-280x320.jpg\" alt=\"The_Sammy_Davis_Jr_Show\" width=\"280\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine a lifestyle where people would inflict such horrible tortures on their &#8220;friends&#8221;. Perhaps times have changed. Then again, this is advertising copy, and perhaps ads didn&#8217;t reflect real life back then (unlike today).<\/p>\n<p>Also found this amusing box art:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_front-317x320.jpg\" alt=\"The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_front\" width=\"317\" height=\"320\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_back-318x320.jpg\" alt=\"The_Soviet_Army_Chorus_back\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s opera, but even so a couple of those song titles do sound very Soviet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just about finished digitizing my old reel-to-reel audio tapes. Check out this weird blurb I found on the back of one of the tape boxes: I can&#8217;t imagine a lifestyle where people would inflict such horrible tortures on their &#8220;friends&#8221;. Perhaps times have changed. Then again, this is advertising copy, and perhaps ads didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}