{"id":976,"date":"2009-03-24T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=976"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T03:36:34","slug":"american-radio-relay-league-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"American Radio Relay League 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_975\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"size-full wp-image-975 \" title=\"arrlcer\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arrlcer.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate of Recognition\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arrlcer.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arrlcer-200x154.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arrlcer-400x309.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Certificate of Recognition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You know your getting old when they send you one of these. I have been a licensed\u00a0amateur radio operator and a member of this association since 1969.<\/p>\n<p>I was about 22 years old back\u00a0then. Most of the following\u00a0forty years I have been a life member of this group. I think the life membership cost was 20 times the yearly dues, a\u00a0lot of money back then.<\/p>\n<p>That was BK (before kids) but I was married to my first and still only wife. She needs a certificate for living with a nerd radio operator for that long. My first radio station was in our living room in an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The ARRL says they are sending me a pin to go with the certificate. The pin hasn&#8217;t arrived. I&#8217;ll post a picture when it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know your getting old when they send you one of these. I have been a licensed\u00a0amateur radio operator and a member of this association since 1969. I was about 22 years old back\u00a0then. Most of the following\u00a0forty years I have been a life member of this group. I think the life membership cost was 20 times the yearly dues, a\u00a0lot of money back then. That was BK (before kids) but I was married to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[43,16,42],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-amateur","tag-hobby","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}