{"id":27974,"date":"2021-05-09T20:18:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=27974"},"modified":"2021-05-09T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:18:57","slug":"the-desk-in-my-bedroom-on-main-street-oberlin-ohio-usa-1989-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2021\/05\/09\/the-desk-in-my-bedroom-on-main-street-oberlin-ohio-usa-1989-1990.html","title":{"rendered":"The Desk In My Bedroom on Main Street, Oberlin Ohio, USA, 1989-1990"},"content":{"rendered":"

I might have kept that upside-down “PERISHABLE FRESH FRUIT” box because of its sturdiness. And the cassettes. Might still have those, too. That’s a silver double-cassette boom box (Magnavox?) on the far bottom left. That thing rocked. I remember blasting Paganini, Alkan, Pabst, Busoni, and the gratuitous 19th\/20th virtuosi, ghetto-style, across the firmament of Main Street, Oberlin, Ohio, USA, 1989 and 1990. That looks like a laptop screen to the left of the b&w television but it is not. I had no computer at home until ~1993, when Allan Bridge and his Apology Line<\/a><\/strong> hoisted an Internet-connected PC into my life.<\/p>\n

\"Bedroom

Bedroom on Main Street. Oberlin, Ohio, February 1990.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I might have kept that upside-down “PERISHABLE FRESH FRUIT” box because of its sturdiness. And the cassettes. Might still have those, too. That’s a silver double-cassette boom box (Magnavox?) on the far bottom left. That thing rocked. I remember blasting Paganini, Alkan, Pabst, Busoni, and the gratuitous 19th\/20th virtuosi, ghetto-style, across the firmament of Main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","category-digital-hoarding","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sorabji_1990-25-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-7hc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27977,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions\/27977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}