{"id":8651,"date":"2014-01-21T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2014-01-21T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:20:42","slug":"wamu-metro-connection-visits-the-mid-atlantic-antique-radio-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/wamu-metro-connection-visits-the-mid-atlantic-antique-radio-club\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMU Metro Connection visits the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MAARC-Club\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, who points out this episode of WAMU’s <\/a>Metro Connection<\/a><\/em> where reporter\u00a0Rebecca Sheir<\/a>\u00a0visits the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club (MAARC).<\/p>\n

You can listen the report on Metro Connection<\/em><\/a>, or simply click here to download the whole podcast<\/a> (MAARC is the first piece).<\/p>\n

Click here to check out the MAARC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, who points out this episode of WAMU’s Metro Connection where reporter\u00a0Rebecca Sheir\u00a0visits the Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club (MAARC). You can listen the report on Metro Connection, or simply click here to download the whole podcast (MAARC is the first piece). Click here to check out the MAARC website.<\/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":[373,1271,3,305,288,26,43],"tags":[464,1148,2525,2526,2528,4091,2527],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-boat-anchors-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","tag-antique-radio","tag-antique-radios","tag-maarc","tag-metro-connection","tag-mid-atlantic-antique-radio-club","tag-radio-history","tag-wamu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2fx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14563,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-new-york-times-breaking-news-and-antique-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":8651,"position":0},"title":"The New York Times: breaking news and antique radios","author":"Thomas","date":"September 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to my buddy, David Goren, who recently discovered that the New York Times Store is now selling fully-restored antique radios. 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