{"id":1820,"date":"2013-08-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/the-spirit-of-76.html"},"modified":"2013-08-18T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T08:30:00","slug":"the-spirit-of-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/the-spirit-of-76.html","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Tyco style that is. \u00a0Remember this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PcIo-FwC2wI\/UhC7UhNXWVI\/AAAAAAAAFeM\/oQNwOyhRFa8\/s1600\/TYCOJCP76super.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-PcIo-FwC2wI\/UhC7UhNXWVI\/AAAAAAAAFeM\/oQNwOyhRFa8\/s400\/TYCOJCP76super.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yeah, I remember that. \u00a0The year was 1976, or maybe earlier. Even though my Dad was a train engineer, oddly he never put much into model railroad layouts. \u00a0Unlike many who worked on the railroad, who got into the whole \u2018railroad hobby and collectibles\u2019, Dad approached it like a job. I once asked why he didn\u2019t have a model railroad layout. \u00a0He said when accountants have model accountant layouts, then he\u2019ll consider it. \u00a0It was just his job. \u00a0He went to work, short sleeve polo shirts, jeans and sunglasses, ran his train, and came home. \u00a0So it wasn\u2019t as if every train set that came along made it into our house. \u00a0There was a commercial for it (a commercial for an electric train set \u2013 haven\u2019t seen one of those for a million years). \u00a0I actually wanted set in the worst way. \u00a0My Mom took me to some matinee in Mansfield, where we watched some cartoons and maybe a movie, I don\u2019t remember. \u00a0Then there was a raffle drawing for a stage filled with prizes, one prize being this set. \u00a0As usual, I didn\u2019t win anything.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyco style that is. \u00a0Remember this: Yeah, I remember that. \u00a0The year was 1976, or maybe earlier. 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