{"id":488,"date":"2011-08-08T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-03-01T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:24:07","slug":"its-a-tape-dispenser-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2011\/08\/08\/its-a-tape-dispenser-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Tape Dispenser &#8211; Get it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.junkskull.com\/products\/j-me-tape-dispenser\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-489 \" title=\"j-me Tape Dispenser\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tape-dispenser-black-2_grande.jpg\" alt=\"j-me Tape Dispenser\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tape-dispenser-black-2_grande.jpg 400w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tape-dispenser-black-2_grande-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tape-dispenser-black-2_grande-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">j-me Tape Dispenser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Love the use of the iconic cassette tape form as a scotch tape dispenser on this product.<\/p>\n<p>The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compact_Cassette\">compact audio-cassette<\/a> in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me remember with great fondness the days mixing up a really good (and sublimely meaningful) tape in the mode of the ultimate mix-tape book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140293469\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=spidermitecentra&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0140293469\">High Fidelity<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0140293469&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/nicksbooks.com\">Nick Hornby<\/a>. \u00a0There was great joy when the recipient actually understood what you were getting at. \u00a0Fortunately, that kind of backhanded communication vehicle is not a lost art, it has just morphed on into other things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Mix in a little Bob Mould, and have a listen to his musical interpretation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000QOXCZK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=spidermitecentra&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B000QOXCZK\">High Fidelity<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000QOXCZK&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. \u00a0How&#8217;s that for a random loop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love the use of the iconic cassette tape form as a scotch tape dispenser on this product. The Philips Company of the Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette in 1962. Makes me remember with great fondness the days mixing up a really good (and sublimely meaningful) tape in the mode of the ultimate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2011\/08\/08\/its-a-tape-dispenser-get-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s a Tape Dispenser &#8211; Get it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,90,91,92],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-design","tag-bob-mould","tag-cassette-tape","tag-high-fidelity","tag-nick-hornby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}