{"id":20,"date":"2009-03-13T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cliverowe.com\/dblog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T20:27:01","slug":"now-i-feel-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/now-i-feel-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Now I Feel Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Article on Gizmodo\" href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5166399\/happy-30th-birthday-compact-disc\">news<\/a> that Compact Disc is thirty years old, made me feel old. Actually I (and you) should relax just a bit; the first discs did not hit the stores until late 1982. So it is not as bad as it first seemed.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever about the sound quality, the album art is just not the same reduced to CD size. The impact of something like <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> is entirely lost when it not on a 12 inch square. There was some excitement in sliding that big disc out of its cover, placing it carefully on the turntable, and gently lowering the needle. There was a certain joy in sitting back the gatefold cover open in your lap, studying the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>But <a title=\"YouTube clip of Monty Python sketch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo\">tell that to young kids today and they won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CD hits thirty and I suddenly feel old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cliverowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}