{"id":7264,"date":"2012-04-22T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2012-04-22T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T18:23:58","slug":"hikikomori-of-a-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/hikikomori-of-a-sort\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikikomori (of a sort)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/19\/the_sound_of_sin\/singleton\/\">Via <em>Salon<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I first brought home our sleek, silver, double-deck, Panasonic stereo cassette player during the summer of 1993, my then-wife, Gitty, frowned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a radio,\u201d she said with an accusing glare.<\/p>\n<p>The device, fresh out of the box, lay on the chintzy oilcloth on our kitchen table, and she stuck her index finger at a spot on the top, near the volume control. Tape, AM, FM, printed in tiny white letters along the ridge of the circular switch. There was no denying it. And in our all-Hasidic village in Rockland County, N.Y., radio \u2014 along with TV, movies, newspapers and other sources of secular influence \u2014 was verboten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll do what everyone does,\u201d I said, slightly annoyed at the suggestion of impiety. Many of my friends had cassette players, and when the device came with a built-in radio tuner, there was a standard procedure for it: Krazy Glue the switch into the tape-playing position, paste a strip of masking tape over the channel indicators, and put the antenna out with the next day\u2019s trash\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That seems sad to me, but there it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dangerous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dangerous-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dangerous\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dangerous-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Dangerous.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Salon: When I first brought home our sleek, silver, double-deck, Panasonic stereo cassette player during the summer of 1993, my then-wife, Gitty, frowned. \u201cIt has a radio,\u201d she said with an accusing glare. The device, fresh out of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/hikikomori-of-a-sort\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[363,738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7268,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}