{"id":19215,"date":"2016-05-27T07:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19215"},"modified":"2016-05-27T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T11:05:00","slug":"video-j-r-r-tolkien-on-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/video-j-r-r-tolkien-on-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: J R R Tolkien on Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RCA-Portable-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12480\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RCA-Portable-Dial-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"RCA-Portable-Dial\" width=\"584\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RCA-Portable-Dial-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RCA-Portable-Dial-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/RCA-Portable-Dial.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Eric (WD8RIF), who shares this (quirky!) animated video set to a British Library Sound Archive of &#8220;Wireless&#8221; by J R R Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>This animation was produced by students at the University of the Arts London:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WCV5TtByBnw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WCV5TtByBnw\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Eric (WD8RIF), who shares this (quirky!) animated video set to a British Library Sound Archive of &#8220;Wireless&#8221; by J R R Tolkien. This animation was produced by students at the University of the Arts London: Click here to view on YouTube.<\/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":[460,3,304],"tags":[4101,5110,5111,4093,2888],"class_list":["post-19215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-news","category-videos","tag-funny","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-tolkien","tag-videos","tag-wd8rif"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4ZV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34030,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/a-free-book-pdf-on-sun-earth-interaction\/","url_meta":{"origin":19215,"position":0},"title":"A free book (PDF) on sun-earth interaction","author":"Thomas","date":"September 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric (WD8RIF), who writes: This came in the most recent ARRL Contest newsletter: The Sun, The Earth, and Near-Earth Space: A Guide to the Sun-Earth System by J. 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