{"id":26,"date":"2008-07-10T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-07-10T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T14:35:49","slug":"the-good-old-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-good-old-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Old Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning I was thinking about some of the old toys I had as a kid.\u00a0 Sure there were the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transformers_(toy_line)\" target=\"_blank\">Transformers<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gobots\" target=\"_blank\">Gobots<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/He-man\" target=\"_blank\">He-Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think my favorites, though, were the construction toys.\u00a0 Of which only Leggos stood the test of time, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>But does anyone else remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capsela\" target=\"_blank\">Capsela<\/a>? or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Construx\" target=\"_blank\">Construx<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block; float:left; margin-right:10px;\" href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/726173095000-l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"Capsela!\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/726173095000-l-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Capsela\" width=\"220\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display:block; float:left;\" href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/construx1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"Construx!\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/construx1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Construx were totally rad.\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:left; padding-top:10px;\">I honestly don&#8217;t think I ever knew quite what to do with Capsela &#8212; they seemed like they would&#8217;ve been awesome things to play with if you were near a large body of water.\u00a0 Or you like to take a lot of baths.\u00a0 Neither of which applied to me.\u00a0 Still.\u00a0 Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>But I definitely remember liking Construx.\u00a0 They were sort of like a modern version of an Erector Set.\u00a0 Without the rust.\u00a0 Simple, extensible.\u00a0 Lots of fun.\u00a0 Creative options galore.<\/p>\n<p>And now they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ebay.com\/search\/search.dll?sofocus=bs&amp;sbrftog=1&amp;dfsp=32&amp;from=R40&amp;satitle=construx&amp;sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&amp;sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&amp;sadis=200&amp;fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&amp;sabfmts=1&amp;saobfmts=insif&amp;ftrt=1&amp;ftrv=1&amp;saprclo=&amp;saprchi=&amp;fsop=32%26fsoo%3D2\" target=\"_blank\">listed on eBay as &#8216;Vintage&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0 These are the problems that start occuring when one turns 30, I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this morning I was thinking about some of the old toys I had as a kid.\u00a0 Sure there were the Transformers and the Gobots.\u00a0 He-Man. I think my favorites, though, were the construction toys.\u00a0 Of which only Leggos stood the test of time, it seems. But does anyone else remember Capsela? or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[36,35],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-good-old-days","tag-old-school","tag-toys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}