{"id":6205,"date":"2011-03-05T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2011-03-05T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:02:01","slug":"old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=6205","title":{"rendered":"Old School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[turntable]\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140225_tobin_listening.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6206\" title=\"140225_tobin_listening\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140225_tobin_listening.jpg?resize=535%2C357\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140225_tobin_listening.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140225_tobin_listening.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140225_tobin_listening.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"lightbox[turntable]\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140230_ernie_bert_singalong.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6207\" title=\"140230_ernie_bert_singalong\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140230_ernie_bert_singalong.jpg?resize=128%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140230_ernie_bert_singalong.jpg?resize=128%2C128&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140230_ernie_bert_singalong.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140230_ernie_bert_singalong.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"lightbox[turntable]\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140232_letters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6208\" title=\"140232_letters\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140232_letters.jpg?resize=128%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140232_letters.jpg?resize=128%2C128&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140232_letters.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140232_letters.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"lightbox[turntable]\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140233_sound_of_music.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6209\" title=\"140233_sound_of_music\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140233_sound_of_music.jpg?resize=128%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140233_sound_of_music.jpg?resize=128%2C128&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140233_sound_of_music.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/140233_sound_of_music.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, i got a vintage, <a rel=\"lightbox[turntable2]\" href=\"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Mika_Bday_Card_2007.jpg\">Fischer-Price baby &#8216;record&#8217; player<\/a> from e-bay, after both Mika and i were mesmerized by an original hand-me-down version at Elsie&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s technically a music box: the plastic records trigger an instrument inside the toy. Both kids loved playing with it, but have mostly moved on to listening to CD&#8217;s these days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to pass on my own, German children&#8217;s records to Mika and Tobin, but there was no way they could be allowed to play them unsupervised on Sung&#8217;s turntable. Fisher-Price and e-bay to the rescue again! I snapped up a vintage children&#8217;s turntable, along with some Sesame Street classics (the Sing-Along has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mh85R-S-dh8\" target=\"_blank\">Rubber Ducky song<\/a>!). In a local thrift store, we even got &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; for $1. A new, old era has begun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, i got a vintage, Fischer-Price baby &#8216;record&#8217; player from e-bay, after both Mika and i were mesmerized by an original hand-me-down version at Elsie&#8217;s house. It&#8217;s technically a music box: the plastic records trigger an instrument inside the toy. Both kids loved playing with it, but have mostly moved on to listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}