{"id":86,"date":"2005-03-25T09:38:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/03\/25\/instasets-sweet-smelling-shit\/"},"modified":"2005-03-25T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-25T13:38:04","slug":"instasets-sweet-smelling-shit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/03\/25\/instasets-sweet-smelling-shit\/","title":{"rendered":"InstaSet&#8217;s sweet-smelling shit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a841'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just snagged an InstaSet AM\/FM Clock radio with blue display, to replace my aging red display, in the hopes that some proto-Doppler effect would rub off on me.  (It must have worked; today, without even plugging it in, I was up at 7am, and literally itching for 9 to roll around so I could start making business calls&#8230; a rarity since I stopped running my own shop.)<\/p>\n<p>It has a mini clockchip that&#8217;s installed <b>on manufacture<\/b>; keeps the time for three years.  No setting.  Has decent speakers, decent reception, no annoying antennae-extension.  I plugged it in, the radio tuned in.  The default alarm time was 8:25AM, fine by me.  The tuner and volume-wheel were sensitive and nicely done.  The buttons for switching times and modes were cheap and stuck, moving jerkily; I&#8217;m glad I won&#8217;t have to press them often.  What a beautiful piece of junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just snagged an InstaSet AM\/FM Clock radio with blue display, to replace my aging red display, in the hopes that some proto-Doppler effect would rub off on me. (It must have worked; today, without even plugging it in, I was up at 7am, and literally itching for 9 to roll around so I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}