{"id":171525,"date":"2015-01-21T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/21\/objectoccult-before-the-availability-of-the\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T12:25:40","slug":"objectoccult-before-the-availability-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/21\/objectoccult-before-the-availability-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-171525 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/21\/objectoccult-before-the-availability-of-the\/attachment\/171526\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n7h4m6ppWS1syn9w4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n7h4m6ppWS1syn9w4o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tumblr_n7h4m6ppWS1syn9w4o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/objectoccult.tumblr.com\/post\/89366039567\/before-the-availability-of-the-tape-recorder-and\" target=\"_blank\">objectoccult<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll records were \u201cpressed\u201d on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. \u201cThey would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,\u201d says author Anya von Bremzen. \u201cYou\u2019d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha\u2019s brain scan \u2014 forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>objectoccult: Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll records were \u201cpressed\u201d on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/21\/objectoccult-before-the-availability-of-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[261,2,4,1202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171527,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171525\/revisions\/171527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}