{"id":45511,"date":"2020-09-23T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45511"},"modified":"2020-09-23T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:50:41","slug":"reminder-last-chance-to-enter-our-mfj-8100k-shortwave-receiver-kit-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/reminder-last-chance-to-enter-our-mfj-8100k-shortwave-receiver-kit-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Last chance to enter our MFJ-8100K shortwave receiver kit giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a reminder that our MFJ-8100K shortwave receiver kit giveaway ends today (September 23, 2020 at 16:00 UTC). At time of posting, you still have a few hours to enter!<\/p>\n

Click here to read the details.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a reminder that our MFJ-8100K shortwave receiver kit giveaway ends today (September 23, 2020 at 16:00 UTC). At time of posting, you still have a few hours to enter! Click here to read the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[344,3],"tags":[8806],"class_list":["post-45511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kits","category-news","tag-mfj-enterprises"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-bQ3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45339,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/win-an-mfj-8100k-shortwave-receiver-kit\/","url_meta":{"origin":45511,"position":0},"title":"Win an MFJ-8100K shortwave receiver kit!","author":"Thomas","date":"September 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"After posting Ron's note\u00a0about the MFK-8100K receiver kit, I touched base with MFJ and they have kindly donated a new 8100K kit to us for an SWLing Post giveaway. 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