{"id":8771,"date":"2017-11-06T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8771"},"modified":"2017-11-21T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T20:37:39","slug":"bring-back-the-hiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/06\/bring-back-the-hiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back The Hiss!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cassettes-are-making-a-comeback-but-there-s-a-kink-nobody-makes-tape-1509723435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\">A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"sub-head\">Brisk demand from old and new fans prompts a Missouri company to return to a long-paused business<\/h2>\n<p>By\u00a0<span class=\"name\">Ryan Dezember<\/span> and\u00a0<span class=\"name\">Anne Steele<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbNa-KLAgy8\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mo.\u2014Steve Stepp and his team of septuagenarian engineers are using a bag of rust, a kitchen mixer larger than a man and a 62-foot-long contraption that used to make magnetic strips for credit cards to avert a disaster that no one saw coming in the digital-music era.<\/p>\n<p>The world is running out of cassette tape.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cassettes-are-making-a-comeback-but-there-s-a-kink-nobody-makes-tape-1509723435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling Brisk demand from old and new fans prompts a Missouri company to return to a long-paused business By\u00a0Ryan Dezember and\u00a0Anne Steele SPRINGFIELD, Mo.\u2014Steve Stepp and his team of septuagenarian engineers are using a bag of rust, a kitchen mixer larger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}