{"id":2543,"date":"2009-11-12T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2009-11-12T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:49:52","slug":"swatch-irony-chrono-straight-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/swatch-irony-chrono-straight-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatch Irony Chrono &#8211; Straight Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone over in Sweden is either in the know and giving a nod, or is completely out of the loop and has no idea what&#8217;s going on in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 1987, Swatch dropped the X-Rated Swatch (GB406). At the time, it was probably just a Generation X related motif, with some possible new wave connotations. The Youth Crew got a hold of them, and they spread through the scene like a wildfire. It was essentially the most crucial piece of time keeping to finish off your ensemble. But at the time, the X-Rated swatch had NOTHING to do with straight edge.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward 20 years. Swatch releases a new watch, and it&#8217;s called the &#8220;Straight Edge&#8221; (YCS1006). The name is what perked my ears up. Looking at this watch, you can see no nods towards hardcore, punk or Straight Edge. Maybe it&#8217;s just a <em>cool<\/em> name?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574646525&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336281937&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=370225464617&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.teetilldeath.com\/shirt-images\/2009.11\/2009.11.12.sxe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574646525&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336281937&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=370225464617&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.teetilldeath.com\/shirt-images\/2009.11\/2009.11.12.sxe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clevo, thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone over in Sweden is either in the know and giving a nod, or is completely out of the loop and has no idea what&#8217;s going on in the world. Way back in 1987, Swatch dropped the X-Rated Swatch (GB406). At the time, it was probably just a Generation X related motif, with some possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,90,568],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}