{"id":10216,"date":"2013-07-27T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/27\/excelsior-happy-birthday-jean-shepherd\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:03:37","slug":"excelsior-happy-birthday-jean-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/27\/excelsior-happy-birthday-jean-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCELSIOR!  Happy Birthday Jean Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/shep.jpg\" style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"224\" \/><\/strong> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong>NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Almanac&#8221; alerted us to this: Shep was born on this day in 1925. I realize now that that made him just a week or so older than my dad (who was a big fan). <\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong>Here is a really nice site with info about Shep, ham radio, and his call sign: <\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flicklives.com\/index.php?pg=318\"><strong>http:\/\/www.flicklives.com\/index.php?pg=318<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">EXCELSIOR !!!!!!!!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Writer&#8217;s Almanac&#8221; alerted us to this: Shep was born on this day in 1925. I realize now that that made him just a week or so older than my dad (who was a big fan). Here is a really nice site with info about Shep, ham radio, and his call sign: http:\/\/www.flicklives.com\/index.php?pg=318 EXCELSIOR !!!!!!!!!!! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/27\/excelsior-happy-birthday-jean-shepherd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EXCELSIOR!  Happy Birthday Jean Shepherd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jean-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","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=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}