{"id":11546,"date":"2008-08-23T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/the-archive\/"},"modified":"2008-08-23T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T13:37:00","slug":"the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should definitely check out the short film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1546186\" target=\"_blank\">The Archive<\/a> at <i>Vimeo<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world&rsquo;s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of a man and his records. I hope you enjoy it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <i>MetaFilter<\/i> points out, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s ready to sell the whole thing for 6 cents on the dollar of their worth. 3 million records for $1 each. And nobody is buying.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I can&rsquo;t believe that no one has expressed any interest in such an amazing collection!  You&rsquo;d think <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Allen\" title=\"Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Allen<\/a> (founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Experience_Music_Project\" title=\"Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Experience Music Project<\/a>, a museum of music history in Seattle), the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rock_and_roll_hall_of_fame\" title=\"Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame<\/a>, or even the Library Of Congress would jump at this opportunity.  What a tragedy; I hope that someone worthy gives the collection a home&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/74277\/The-Archive-Still-Unsold\" title=\"via MetaFilter\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/nostalgia\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/popculture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">popculture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-4011223642609879508?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should definitely check out the short film The Archive at Vimeo: Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world&rsquo;s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/the-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}