{"id":25909,"date":"2014-06-05T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25909"},"modified":"2021-05-06T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:03:06","slug":"you-didnt-think-i-would-come-home-without-these-did-yousince-my-first-glimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25909","title":{"rendered":"You Didn&#8217;t Think I Would Come Home Without These Did You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You Didn&#8217;t Think I Would Come Home Without These Did You?<\/p>\n<p>Since my first glimpse of an RCA TK44 mounted on the Chapman Electra crane on SNL back in 1975, I have wanted to sit in &#8220;the bucket&#8221;. I finally have and I&#8217;m a happy man!<\/p>\n<p>For the full story on the Electra and 8H, here is an in depth article I did a few years back.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/teletales\/studio-8h-and-the-chapman-crane\/\">https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/teletales\/studio-8h-and-the-chapman-crane\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To update the story, Chapman wanted to retire 308 a couple of years ago. They took her out and put in a new Electra, but, it could not make the tight turns that the old 308 could. The only thing to do was give 308 a complete makeover and a new paint job and put her back to work in 8H where John, Louis, Robert and Phil take loving care of her. Bless her heart! If she could only talk!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/684852738218945\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/You-Didnt-Think-I-Would-Come-Home-Without-These-Did-You-Since-my-first-glimps\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/684852738218945\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477218330_118_You-Didnt-Think-I-Would-Come-Home-Without-These-Did-You-Since-my-first-glimps\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/684852738218945\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477218330_817_You-Didnt-Think-I-Would-Come-Home-Without-These-Did-You-Since-my-first-glimps\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/684857808218438\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Didn&#8217;t Think I Would Come Home Without These Did You? Since my first glimpse of an RCA TK44 mounted on the Chapman Electra crane on SNL back in 1975, I have wanted to sit in &#8220;the bucket&#8221;. I finally have and I&#8217;m a happy man! For the full story on the Electra and 8H, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[788,806],"class_list":["post-25909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-rca","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62081,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25909\/revisions\/62081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}