{"id":20001,"date":"2016-07-07T06:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20001"},"modified":"2016-07-07T06:09:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:09:42","slug":"lets-send-lou-josephs-our-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/lets-send-lou-josephs-our-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s send Lou Josephs our messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20003\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loujosephs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20003\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20003\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loujosephs.jpg\" alt=\"Lou Josephs (Photo: Jonathan Marks)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loujosephs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loujosephs-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/loujosephs-624x439.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lou Josephs (Photo: Jonathan Marks)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May be you can help spread the word? Lou is very seriously ill, but would appreciate hearing from SWL&#8217;s who remember him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2016\/07\/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2016\/07\/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very sorry to hear that Lou is in such bad health. Thanks for letting us know, Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SWLing Post<\/em> readers, if you would like to send Lou a message, <a href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2016\/07\/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html\" target=\"_blank\">please comment on Jonathan&#8217;s blog<\/a> and he will make sure your message gets to Lou. Thanks!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who writes: May be you can help spread the word? Lou is very seriously ill, but would appreciate hearing from SWL&#8217;s who remember him. http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2016\/07\/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html Very sorry to hear that Lou is in such bad health. Thanks for letting us know, Jonathan. SWLing Post readers, if you [&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":[960,3],"tags":[246,5256,263,952],"class_list":["post-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-lou-josephs","tag-radio-netherlands","tag-rnw-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5cB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20014,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/saying-goodbye-to-lou-josephs\/","url_meta":{"origin":20001,"position":0},"title":"Saying Goodbye to Lou Josephs","author":"Thomas","date":"July 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It is with sadness we pass along this message from Jonathan Marks concerning Lou Josephs: I am afraid Lou passed away Sunday morning. 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Three days ago, I received this message along with a QSL card: Radio Paisano is a novelty shortwave pirate station that celebrates Columbus Day, and features the music of Lou Monte and the comedy of Pat Cooper. 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