{"id":19449,"date":"2013-07-03T23:38:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19449"},"modified":"2013-07-03T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T03:50:58","slug":"backyard-blasting-on-the-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/backyard-blasting-on-the-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Blasting on the 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19451\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-02-18.47.52-e1372857680376.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19451 \" alt=\"Fisher Makes Good Speakers, Right?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-02-18.47.52-e1372857680376-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-02-18.47.52-e1372857680376-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-02-18.47.52-e1372857680376-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-02-18.47.52-e1372857680376.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fisher Makes Good Speakers, Right?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I will be spending a good part of the 4th of July weekend on our backyard patio listening to ballgames and my iPod on this old warhorse. It&#8217;s a Fisher boom box, circa 1985 &#8212;\u00a0complete with\u00a0aux\/phono input. l got a Fisher because my dad\u00a0told me when I was a kid\u00a0that\u00a0our Fisher speakers at home were really, really\u00a0good &#8212; so that stuck with me for years.<\/p>\n<p>This sits on the patio and under the eaves through rain, sun, and sleet. If there was a jail for boom box abuse, I would be an inmate. The dual cassette deck doesn&#8217;t work anymore, but the radio and aux input are all I need anyway. I also have a Jawbox I use outside sometimes, but most of the time, I just use the boombox. We remodeled last summer, and I am starting to wish I would have ponyed up for a\u00a0modern outside sound system &#8212; maybe I will when the Fisher dies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a great weekend\u00a0 . . . <em>and\u00a0what is your modus operandi for cranking tunes outside?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be spending a good part of the 4th of July weekend on our backyard patio listening to ballgames and my iPod on this old warhorse. It&#8217;s a Fisher boom box, circa 1985 &#8212;\u00a0complete with\u00a0aux\/phono input. l got a Fisher because my dad\u00a0told me when I was a kid\u00a0that\u00a0our Fisher speakers at home were <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/backyard-blasting-on-the-4th-of-july\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}