{"id":58785,"date":"2024-01-27T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58785"},"modified":"2024-01-27T17:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:00:39","slug":"thank-you-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/thank-you-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all of the notes of support and kindness I&#8217;ve received during <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/update-from-swling-post-hq\/\">my mother&#8217;s Hospice care and after her passing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mom&#8217;s memorial service was yesterday; and while it was a somber day, it was brightened by this large, beautiful floral arrangement that arrived at the church where the service was held:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58787\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-624x832.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the message on the card that accompanied the arrangement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58786\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1-1024x671.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1-768x503.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SWLing-Flowers-1-1-624x409.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was truly kind and warmed all of our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so very much, friends. ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all of the notes of support and kindness I&#8217;ve received during my mother&#8217;s Hospice care and after her passing. Mom&#8217;s memorial service was yesterday; and while it was a somber day, it was brightened by this large, beautiful floral arrangement that arrived at the church where the service was held: Here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[755],"class_list":["post-58785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-swling-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fi9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64773,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/radyo-pilipinas-world-service-back-on-the-air\/","url_meta":{"origin":58785,"position":0},"title":"Radyo Pilipinas World Service Back On The Air","author":"Thomas","date":"December 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dan Greenall, who writes: Hi Thomas As per the announcement on the SWLing Post, Radyo Pilipinas did indeed return on the air December 1 at 0200 hours UTC on the announced frequencies on 12020, 15640 and 17665 kHz. 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