{"id":41377,"date":"2019-12-31T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41377"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T12:37:53","slug":"alan-takes-a-deeper-dive-into-decibels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/alan-takes-a-deeper-dive-into-decibels\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan takes a deeper dive into decibels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Alan Fahrner, who writes:<\/p>\n

One of your articles below inspired me to write this:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/math.promo\/2019\/12\/shortwave-decibels\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This past August I went back for a second bachelors, this time in mathematics. So, I love when real life can be used as an example of answering the age-old question, \u201cWhen am I ever going to use this?\u201d about math. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

And a Happy New Year to you, too, Alan! Thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Fahrner, who writes: One of your articles below inspired me to write this: https:\/\/math.promo\/2019\/12\/shortwave-decibels\/ This past August I went back for a second bachelors, this time in mathematics. So, I love when real life can be used as an example of answering the age-old question, \u201cWhen am I […]<\/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],"tags":[8228,8227],"class_list":["post-41377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alan-fahrner","tag-decibels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aLn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41322,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/radio-deal-refurb-panasonic-rf-2400-am-fm-radio-13-99\/","url_meta":{"origin":41377,"position":0},"title":"Radio Deal: Refurb Panasonic RF-2400 AM\/FM radio $13.99","author":"Thomas","date":"December 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Fahrner, who writes: Didn't know if any of your readers would be interested in the Woot deal on refurb Panasonic RF-2400s: https:\/\/sellout.woot.com\/offers\/panasonic-rf-2400-am-fm-radio-silver-4 Thank you, Alan! 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