{"id":69,"date":"2008-04-19T10:10:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/?p=69"},"modified":"2008-04-19T10:10:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T18:10:44","slug":"amoeba-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Amoeba Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/amoeba_sm.JPG\" alt=\"Amoeba Records\" style=\"float:left; margin-right: 5px;\" \/>I knew when I moved to Berkeley in 1997 that they had many great record stores &#8212; all within a few blocks of each other.  That&#8217;s what made the arrival of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amoeba.com\/\">Amoeba  Records<\/a> so surprising.  From day one it was the best record store I&#8217;ve ever seen.  They carried everything including all the obscure and import stuff I never could find elsewhere.  Their San Francisco store is bigger but since I&#8217;m living in the East Bay I usually end up here.  They also have extensive DVD offerings in addition to the music.  Online shopping is convenient but I still enjoy the browsing experience.  Their buyers always have something on the shelves that I want &#8212; but just didn&#8217;t know it existed.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Amoeba Records<br \/>\n2455 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704<br \/>\n510.549.1125<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew when I moved to Berkeley in 1997 that they had many great record stores &#8212; all within a few blocks of each other. That&#8217;s what made the arrival of Amoeba Records so surprising. From day one it was the best record store I&#8217;ve ever seen. They carried everything including all the obscure and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.luxarts.com\/chris\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}