{"id":61506,"date":"2024-12-30T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61506"},"modified":"2024-12-29T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T02:49:14","slug":"the-shipping-forecast-day-on-new-years-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-shipping-forecast-day-on-new-years-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shipping Forecast Day on New Year’s Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Richard Cuff, who notes that Radio 4 is having a special all-day New Year’s program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Shipping Forecast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to check it out on Radio 4.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Richard Cuff, who notes that Radio 4 is having a special all-day New Year’s program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Shipping Forecast. Click here to check it out on Radio 4.<\/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":[3,305],"tags":[852,2734],"class_list":["post-61506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-radio-4","tag-shipping-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g02","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9808,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/today-choppy-seas-for-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":61506,"position":0},"title":"Today: Choppy seas for the Shipping Forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the dawn of time, there is, there was, and there always has been...the Shipping Forecast. 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