{"id":144,"date":"2014-08-01T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wa4fat.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-09-15T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:14:33","slug":"have-you-heard-the-one-about-an-indian-a-cowboy-and-marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard the one about an Indian, a Cowboy and Marilyn Monroe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this vintage QSL from Swiss station HB9AAG, the operator appears to be making a plea for harmony. If an Indian, Cowboy, Eskimo, Asian, African and Marilyn Monroe can all get along, then we should \u00a0be able to do the same, right?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wa4fat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hb9aag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-145 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wa4fat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hb9aag-1024x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hb9aag-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hb9aag-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hb9aag.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for a larger view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I find the hope for unity just as poignant today as back in 1962. And notice too that HB9AAG apparently operated either QRP or QRO &#8230; 25 watts when conditions were good, and a pileup-busting\u00a035 watts when he really wanted to heat up the ether.<\/p>\n<p>The world needs more optimists like HB9AAG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this vintage QSL from Swiss station HB9AAG, the operator appears to be making a plea for harmony. If an Indian, Cowboy, Eskimo, Asian, African and Marilyn Monroe can all get along, then we should \u00a0be able to do the same, right? I find the hope for unity just as poignant today as back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have you heard the one about an Indian, a Cowboy and Marilyn Monroe?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","category-qsl-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa4fat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}