{"id":10050,"date":"2009-03-27T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/marconis-big-ears\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:45:54","slug":"marconis-big-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/marconis-big-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Marconi&#8217;s Big Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/marconi2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 270px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/marconi2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317733112543020194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thunderstruck<\/span> by Erik Larson has countless gems about Marconi. I thought I would share one with you this morning.<\/p>\n<p>When Marconi was born on April 25 1874, an elderly gardener saw the new baby and exclaimed, &#8220;Che orecchi grandi ha!&#8221; (&#8220;What big ears he has!&#8221;) Marconi&#8217;s ever protective Irish Mom, Annie, took offense and replied:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;He will be able to hear the still, small voice of the air.&#8221;<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderstruck by Erik Larson has countless gems about Marconi. I thought I would share one with you this morning. When Marconi was born on April 25 1874, an elderly gardener saw the new baby and exclaimed, &#8220;Che orecchi grandi ha!&#8221; (&#8220;What big ears he has!&#8221;) Marconi&#8217;s ever protective Irish Mom, Annie, took offense and replied: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/marconis-big-ears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marconi&#8217;s Big Ears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}