{"id":23063,"date":"2016-12-27T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23063"},"modified":"2016-12-27T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:20:18","slug":"radio-free-europe-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/radio-free-europe-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Europe and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23064\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23064\" class=\"wp-image-23064 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg\" width=\"441\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg 441w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 RFE Christmas card<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Cummings, who shares the 1951 Radio Free Europe Christmas card above.<\/p>\n<p>Richard also notes that he recently published a two-part series on RFE and Christmas on his blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cold War Radio Vignettes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/christmas-and-radio-free-europe-part.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part One: Santa Claus, Freedom Girl and the Red Invader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.com\/2016\/12\/christmas-and-radio-free-europe-part_22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part Two: Selected Summary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both excellent reads! Thanks, Richard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Cummings, who shares the 1951 Radio Free Europe Christmas card above. Richard also notes that he recently published a two-part series on RFE and Christmas on his blog, Cold War Radio Vignettes. Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part One: Santa Claus, Freedom Girl and the Red Invader Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,288,43],"tags":[1560,752,3067,5239,1160,1094,5240,34],"class_list":["post-23063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-christmas","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-cold-war-radio-vignettes","tag-radio-free-europe","tag-rfe","tag-richard-cummings","tag-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5ZZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}