{"id":1956,"date":"2016-01-17T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2016-01-17T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:17:35","slug":"transistor-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/transistor-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Transistor Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking for some electrical parts in the shop the other day and re-dicovered this in the bottom of a box.<\/p>\n

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One of my 1st electronic toys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was about 10 years old my parents went on a trip without Gail & I. We stayed with our grandparents Amma & Grandad for several days. I think is was a Great-West Life convention in the U.S. and perhaps a side trip as well, the details are a little foggy now. Anyway there was a tradition in our family that if my Dad went on a trip, we’d get some sort of a gift on his return and this trip was no exception.<\/p>\n

Upon their return they\u00a0came over to my Grandparents house on Oak St. to pick us up. After some hugs and kisses and some chatter\u00a0about the trip they presented a radio just like this one to my Grandparents. I was totally fascinated with this! We’d never seen such a small portable radio. I really wanted one, bad. Mom & Dad kind of ignored that and carried on talking about who knows what, and I was getting a little disappointed. Actually, more that disappointed.<\/p>\n

And then the big surprise! \u00a0I got the same radio! And Gail got one too, with a white case. I was ecstatic. \u00a0That radio didn’t leave my hands for quite some time.<\/p>\n

I remember having it in bed after I was supposed to be asleep under the covers listening to Foster Hewitt and Hockey Night in Canada because it came with an earbud, super cutting edge back in the day.<\/p>\n

BTW, it still works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking for some electrical parts in the shop the other day and re-dicovered this in the bottom of a box.   When I was about 10 years old my parents went on a trip without Gail & I. We stayed with our grandparents Amma & Grandad for several days. I think is was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}