{"id":10989,"date":"2014-10-08T06:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:14:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T10:14:29","slug":"fm-radio-saving-lives-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/fm-radio-saving-lives-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"FM Radio: saving lives in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC-BurkinaFaso-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10991\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC-BurkinaFaso-001.jpg\" alt=\"BBC-BurkinaFaso-001\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC-BurkinaFaso-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BBC-BurkinaFaso-001-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Ulis, for sharing <a title=\"BBC News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-29482679\" target=\"_blank\">this video via the BBC News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/emp.bbc.co.uk\/emp\/embed\/smpEmbed.html?playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fhealth-29482679A%2Fplaylist.sxml&amp;title=Can%20the%20humble%20radio%20save%20lives%3F&amp;product=news\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Ulis, for sharing this video via the BBC News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,304],"tags":[104,3295,1384,219],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-bbc","tag-burkina-faso","tag-fm-radio","tag-humanitarian-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Rf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28918,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/ebay-deal-tecsun-pl-660-for-50-90-gbp-shipped\/","url_meta":{"origin":10989,"position":0},"title":"eBay Deal: Tecsun PL-660 for 50.90 GBP shipped","author":"Thomas","date":"October 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, George T, who writes: Just a tip that I found a bargain price on eBay for a new Tecsun PL-660. 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