{"id":38777,"date":"2019-08-01T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38777"},"modified":"2019-08-01T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:59:08","slug":"sangean-pr-d17-now-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/sangean-pr-d17-now-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangean PR-D17 now shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just received the following note from my contact at Sangean:<\/p>\n

“We received our first [PR-D17] shipment yesterday and are starting to ship to our customers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After making an initial post about the PR-D17<\/a>–a radio designed specifically for those who are visually-impaired– I’ve received several inquiries so I thought I’d share this status!<\/p>\n

Click here to read about the PR-D17 at Sangean.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to purchase the PR-D17 at Universal Radio.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just received the following note from my contact at Sangean: “We received our first [PR-D17] shipment yesterday and are starting to ship to our customers.” After making an initial post about the PR-D17–a radio designed specifically for those who are visually-impaired– I’ve received several inquiries so I thought I’d share this status! Click here […]<\/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":[373,3781,3,26],"tags":[7927,600,7897,3717],"class_list":["post-38777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","category-radios","tag-pr-d17","tag-sangean","tag-sangean-pr-d17","tag-visually-impaired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-a5r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38539,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-sangean-pr-d17-an-am-fm-stereo-radio-designed-for-those-who-are-visually-impaired\/","url_meta":{"origin":38777,"position":0},"title":"The Sangean PR-D17: An AM\/FM stereo radio designed for those who are visually impaired","author":"Thomas","date":"July 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Doug Hunsinger, who notes that Universal Radio is now shipping the Sangean PR-D17. 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