{"id":292,"date":"2007-07-01T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T09:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/01\/billys-sk8-shop-advert-may-1991\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T19:51:07","slug":"billys-sk8-shop-advert-may-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/01\/billys-sk8-shop-advert-may-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s SK8 Shop Advert May 1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/96\/rad96-p38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/96\/_rad96-p38.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligleft\" alt=\"Billys Sk8 Shop Advert 1991 Style\" title=\"Billys Sk8 Shop Advert 1991 Style\"  \/><\/a>As I glance at these adverts I realise how little interest I had in the equipment, even though I was surrounded with it for most of my working life. Instead I find myself contemplating the technology which was used to produce pages like this: the effort which a shop would have had to put in to manage such a process when desktop computing was relatively new and desktop publishing still just round the corner for small companies.<br \/>\nMy view of this period is very different from the collectors of equipment, I&#8217;m afraid. I realise it must be very frustrating. It was always the skating itself and the skater&#8217;s attitude to life for me; not the equipment and not the clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I glance at these adverts I realise how little interest I had in the equipment, even though I was surrounded with it for most of my working life. Instead I find myself contemplating the technology which was used to produce pages like this: the effort which a shop would have had to put in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-96-may-1991"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}