{"id":12440,"date":"2009-04-24T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/frannie_kelley_a_eulogy_for_the_boombox\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T03:00:29","slug":"frannie_kelley_a_eulogy_for_the_boombox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12440","title":{"rendered":"Frannie Kelley: A Eulogy For The Boombox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were iPods, or even CDs, and around the time cassettes let break dancers move the party to a cardboard dance floor on the sidewalk, there were boomboxes. It&#8217;s been 20 years since the devices disappeared from the streets. It&#8217;s high time to press rewind on this aspect of America&#8217;s musical history.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, you could take your music with you and play it loud, even if people didn&#8217;t want to hear it. Fifty decibels of power-packed bass blasted out on street corners from New York City to Topeka. Starting in the mid-&#8217;70s, boomboxes were available everywhere, and they weren&#8217;t too expensive. Young inner-city kids lugged them around, and kids in the suburbs kept them in their cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=103363836\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were iPods, or even CDs, and around the time cassettes let break dancers move the party to a cardboard dance floor on the sidewalk, there were boomboxes. It&#8217;s been 20 years since the devices disappeared from the streets.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12440\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}