{"id":13121,"date":"2015-05-06T06:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T16:28:45","slug":"wojtek-gwiazda-retires-from-rci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/wojtek-gwiazda-retires-from-rci\/","title":{"rendered":"Wojtek Gwiazda retires from RCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13134\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Woj-150501_fs1ht_rci-m-studio-w_sn635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13134\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Woj-150501_fs1ht_rci-m-studio-w_sn635.jpg\" alt=\"Wojtek\u2019s final appearance on the Link in RCI\u2019s remaining studio, with Lynn and Marc on Friday May 1, 2015 \u00a9 Leo G- RCI (Source: RCI)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Woj-150501_fs1ht_rci-m-studio-w_sn635.jpg 635w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Woj-150501_fs1ht_rci-m-studio-w_sn635-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wojtek\u2019s final appearance on the Link in RCI\u2019s remaining studio, with Lynn and Marc on Friday May 1, 2015 \u00a9 Leo G- RCI (Source: RCI)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My friend, Wojtek Gwiazda, who has been a host and journalist\u00a0for Radio Canada International&#8211;and an integral part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rciaction.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">RCI Action Committee<\/a>&#8211;has retired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/05\/02\/the-link-online-sat-may-2-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to listen to an exit interview with Wojtek on RCI&#8217;s <em>The Link<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2015\/05\/01\/wojtek-gwiazda-thank-you-and-take-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">Also, check out this page and audio from the RCI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wojtek: here&#8217;s wishing you the best in your retirement!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Wojtek Gwiazda, who has been a host and journalist\u00a0for Radio Canada International&#8211;and an integral part of the\u00a0RCI Action Committee&#8211;has retired. Click here to listen to an exit interview with Wojtek on RCI&#8217;s The Link. Also, check out this page and audio from the RCI website. Wojtek: here&#8217;s wishing you the best in your [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,56,960,4,3,43],"tags":[631,1040,1053,1266,1039,1054],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-interviews","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-radio-canada-international","tag-radio-canada-international-cuts","tag-rci-action","tag-rci-action-committee","tag-rci-cuts","tag-wojtek-gwiazda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3pD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4103,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/rnz-interviews-rcis-wojtek-gwiazda-shutting-off-the-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":13121,"position":0},"title":"RNZ interviews RCI&#8217;s Wojtek Gwiazda: Shutting off the shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio New Zealand's Bryan Crump, host of \u00a0Nights, interviewed RCI Action Committee spokesperson, Wojtek Gwiazda today. 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