{"id":20014,"date":"2016-07-11T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20014"},"modified":"2016-07-11T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:00:12","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-lou-josephs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/saying-goodbye-to-lou-josephs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to Lou Josephs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lou<\/a>

Lou Josephs (Photo: Jonathan Marks)<\/p><\/div>\n

It is with sadness we pass along this message from Jonathan Marks concerning Lou Josephs:<\/p>\n

I am afraid Lou passed away Sunday morning. But his wife Susan would like to pass on the thanks to those people who sent him best wishes via SWLing.com and shared memories with him. He heard them and perked up.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Picked some clips from the archive and added tributes from Vasily and Jim.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2016\/07\/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan Marks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and all who loved and admired Lou ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with sadness we pass along this message from Jonathan Marks concerning Lou Josephs: I am afraid Lou passed away Sunday morning. But his wife Susan would like to pass on the thanks to those people who sent him best wishes via SWLing.com and shared memories with him. He heard them and perked up.\u00a0 […]<\/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":[3,43,5],"tags":[5256],"class_list":["post-20014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-lou-josephs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5cO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20001,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/lets-send-lou-josephs-our-messages\/","url_meta":{"origin":20014,"position":0},"title":"Let’s send Lou Josephs our messages","author":"Thomas","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who writes: May be you can help spread the word? 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