{"id":1118,"date":"2016-09-25T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T19:07:46","slug":"retrochallenge-20162-throwing-my-hat-into-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge 2016\/2 &#8211;  Throwing my hat into the ring."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/retrochallenge-2012sc\/\">Retrochallenge<\/a> time again and how quickly it comes around and how ill-prepared I am.<\/p>\n<p>Recent competitions have seen great entries by talented retro-folks the world over whereas my contributions have been less glorious but filled with enthusiastic zeal.<\/p>\n<p>This time around will be no different \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I will do to be honest. I may take a broken retro system down from the &#8220;shelf of good intentions&#8221; and try to fix it. I may try and interface a ZX printer to something non-Sinclair or perhaps get the Tandy 4 colo(u)r plotter talking to my PDP-11. Who can say?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens there will be joy and frustration but mostly joy.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of poppy-funster &#8220;Jem&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s just a ride, it&#8217;s just a ride<br \/>\nNo need to run, no need to hide<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though there may be a need to solder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See you on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Retrochallenge time again and how quickly it comes around and how ill-prepared I am. Recent competitions have seen great entries by talented retro-folks the world over whereas my contributions have been less glorious but filled with enthusiastic zeal. This time around will be no different \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m not sure what I will do to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrochallenge 2016\/2 &#8211;  Throwing my hat into the ring.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,33,98,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c93-blog-posts","category-c84-retro-tech","category-retrochallenge","category-retrochallenge-20162"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}