{"id":2619,"date":"2009-06-26T07:40:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2009-06-25T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:51:14","slug":"attic-of-astounding-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Attic of Astounding Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gearhead-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Gearhead\" title=\"Gearhead\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Doc Atomic is a collector of vintage toys from the &#8220;space craze&#8221; of the 50s and 60s.  I like this bit from his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/astoundingartifacts.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/super-secret-origin-of-doc-atomic.html\">origins<\/a>&#8221; post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But soon, the second level kicked in and age began to matter. The vintage toys were a direct, physical connection to previous science-fiction and robot fans. They were owned and played with by some kid who might have been me if I&#8217;d been born a few decades earlier. I began to see the reproductions as merely models of how people today thought of the past. The original toys, though, felt like the actual memories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site is brand-new, but he&#8217;s already got plenty of posts that lovingly detail his rayguns and robots.  Gorgeous stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astoundingartifacts.blogspot.com\/\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-orthodox.blogspot.com\/\">Geek Orthodox<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Atomic is a collector of vintage toys from the &#8220;space craze&#8221; of the 50s and 60s. I like this bit from his &#8220;origins&#8221; post: But soon, the second level kicked in and age began to matter. The vintage toys were a direct, physical connection to previous science-fiction and robot fans. They were owned and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}