{"id":25592,"date":"2021-03-10T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=25592"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:16","slug":"rip-lou-ottens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=25592","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Lou Ottens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z031021rip_lououttens.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has just been announced that Lou Ottens has died at the age of 94.\u00a0 If Mr. Ottens name doesn&#8217;t ring a bell, don&#8217;t fell bad.\u00a0 Mr. Ottens wasn&#8217;t famous, but I promise if you&#8217;re a certain age, you&#8217;ll appreciate his invention because of the hours you spent with it and the enjoyment it brought you.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ottens invited the first cassette tape!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Ottens wanted music to portable, assessable and affordable.\u00a0 He succeeded on all counts.\u00a0 I can remember how exited I was to get my first cassette player and blank tapes.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re of a certain age, I&#8217;m sure you remember making mix tapes for different occasions and friends.\u00a0 How cool was it to be able to take your music with you and play it anywhere?\u00a0 Very cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Lou Ottens&#8217; family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has just been announced that Lou Ottens has died at the age of 94.\u00a0 If Mr. Ottens name doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,64,57,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-rip","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25593,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions\/25593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}