{"id":224,"date":"2009-04-27T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-04-27T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:11:21","slug":"google-commemorates-218th-anniversary-of-samuel-morse%e2%80%99s-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/google-commemorates-218th-anniversary-of-samuel-morse%e2%80%99s-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Google commemorates 218th anniversary of Samuel Morse\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up this morning to find the homepage of search engine, <a title=\"Google Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">Google<\/a>, in morse code. What a great way to commemorate Samuel Morse&#8217;s birthday.  In case you missed this special <a title=\"What is a Google Doodle?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_logo#Google_Doodle\">Google Doodle<\/a>, check out the screen capture below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>_  _.  _.._<\/strong> Google!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qrper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/googleincw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176 aligncenter\" title=\"Google Doodle in CW\" src=\"http:\/\/qrper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/googleincw-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"googleincw\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why not learn morse code and add that extra dimension to your SWLing skills? If you&#8217;re interested, check out these informative websites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to the <a title=\"LCWO website\" href=\"http:\/\/lcwo.net\">LCWO<\/a> (Learn CW Online) website, create an account, and start learning morse code online today!<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re an amateur radio operator or are considering becoming a ham, <a title=\"QRPer.com\" href=\"http:\/\/qrper.com\/?p=61\">check out this article<\/a>. Code practice is easy if you have a code buddy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_F._B._Morse\">Click here<\/a> to read Wikipedia&#8217;s biography of Samuel Morse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up this morning to find the homepage of search engine, Google, in morse code. What a great way to commemorate Samuel Morse&#8217;s birthday. In case you missed this special Google Doodle, check out the screen capture below. _ _. _.._ Google! Why not learn morse code and add that extra dimension to 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,92,91,93,88,89],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cw","tag-google","tag-google-doodle","tag-google-morse-code","tag-morse-code","tag-samuel-morse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1308,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/passion-for-morse-code-night-of-nights-featured-in-ny-times\/","url_meta":{"origin":224,"position":0},"title":"Passion for Morse Code, Night of Nights featured in NY Times","author":"Thomas","date":"July 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Many of you reading the SWLing Post are not only passionate shortwave radio listeners, but also amateur radio operators. 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