{"id":6204,"date":"2009-06-29T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2009-06-29T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:52:55","slug":"his-walkman-started-to-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6204","title":{"rendered":"And His Walkman Started to Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kid gave up his iPod for an old-school Sony Walkman, for a week. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8117619.stm\">Some of his observations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal\/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant observation: 20 years from now, iPods will seem as silly and cumbersome as Walkmen (Walkmans ?) do today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kid gave up his iPod for an old-school Sony Walkman, for a week. Some of his observations: It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal\/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}