{"id":15007,"date":"2015-12-27T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2015-12-27T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T11:32:12","slug":"life-precedes-dustbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/27\/life-precedes-dustbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Precedes Dustbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So amid the monsoon, I&#8217;m listening to the rain thunder on the roof of the industrial-plant-turned-antique-mall and the occasional thunder actually thunder throughout the building.  I&#8217;ve got a couple of gift <em>certificates<\/em> that I received for Christmas (this is an antique mall, after all, and not a resale shop or used content venue), and I&#8217;ve put a stack of (24) LPs on the counter for the woman behind the counter to begin laboriously typing in the tags from each booth where I collected the records, and the man in the CHICAGO BEARS jersey dares to speak to me about vinyl coming back.  <\/p>\n<p>It seems he&#8217;s a collector, too.  He had some 50s, 60s, and 70s stuff before he went into the service, he gave it all away and then spent years trying to recollect what he&#8217;d given away.  He said he had about 300, which is a number my beautiful wife wishes I&#8217;d held to.  The fellow also mentioned that Columbia House was restarting because the millenials are discovering vinyl.<\/p>\n<p>I thought he meant <em>Columbia<\/em>, the recording label, but as Charles points out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/21640\" target=\"_blank\">the Columbia House record club<\/a> is resurrecting and selling records.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, I predict.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I spent less than a penny for my twenty-four records with judicious application of gift certificates and gift cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So amid the monsoon, I&#8217;m listening to the rain thunder on the roof of the industrial-plant-turned-antique-mall and the occasional thunder actually thunder throughout the building. I&#8217;ve got a couple of gift certificates that I received for Christmas (this is an antique mall, after all, and not a resale shop or used content venue), and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}