{"id":251,"date":"2012-05-26T21:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-05-26T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:05:56","slug":"mellotronic-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Mellotronic Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was only four years old I knew music had magical properties.\u00a0 We had a piano in our home and I would sit for hours under the piano and feel the strings as I played a note and wondered at the vibrations and how the tone changed with every key I played.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Untitled_54-e1338066219916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-257\" title=\"Mike Pinder Moonboy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Untitled_54-e1338066219916-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early in life my family referred to me as Micky the Moonboy for my interest in space, electronics and music.\u00a0 I suppose that my eclectic interests made me the perfect candidate for later\u00a0innovations like the Mellotron.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was only four years old I knew music had magical properties.\u00a0 We had a piano in our home and I would sit for hours under the piano and feel the strings as I played a note and wondered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/?p=251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinderings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikepinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}