{"id":5964,"date":"2012-04-17T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2012-04-17T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:25:08","slug":"my-sister-found-some-old-cassettes-in-my-parents-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memories\/my-sister-found-some-old-cassettes-in-my-parents-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"My sister found some old cassettes in my parents&#8217; attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re from the late &#8217;80s, when my brother and sister and I would leave our boombox on record for hours on end, until the tapes would run out. They are packed with preciousness and hilarity. I have fuzzy memories of making some of these recordings in our old house, perched on a bunk bed with the bedside lamp on, a blanket hanging from the top for some privacy.<\/p>\n<p>My mom let me hear some snippets when she was in town this weekend because she has a tape player in her Explorer. I have got to find a tape player so I can get them all recorded digitally before the tapes themselves melt or worse. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit I caught on my phone of my mom and me listening to a tape (meta!) where I am singing a Bon Jovi song and then, later, trying to get my 2-year-old brother to talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Memo-1.mp3'>Evan and Lindsey on tape in the late &#8217;80s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy my drawl, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p><s><B>ETA: ARGH WHY WON&#8217;T THIS PLAYYYYYYYY<\/B><\/s><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re from the late &#8217;80s, when my brother and sister and I would leave our boombox on record for hours on end, until the tapes would run out. They are packed with preciousness and hilarity. I have fuzzy memories of making some of these recordings in our old house, perched on a bunk bed with the bedside lamp on, a blanket hanging from the top for some privacy. My mom let me hear some snippets&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,85],"tags":[500,2148],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-the-family","tag-family","tag-memories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-1yc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}