{"id":7673,"date":"2013-09-14T21:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T04:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2013-09-15T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T16:00:15","slug":"wayne-green-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7673","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Green, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad ham radio geek news but Wayne Green (who started a bunch of magazines I read as a teenager) just passed away at 91. Yeah, I\u2019m not talking about pr0n, but totally geeky stuff like <strong>73<\/strong>, <strong>Byte<\/strong>, <strong>Kilobaud<\/strong>, and other very nerdy magazines. I saw him once at the ARRL National Convention in Seattle in 1980. In fact, when I was at the VICA National Skill Olympics in 1981, my buddy Roger and I had code words set up so I could make a collect call to tell him if I won or not. The code word for #1 (which I actually pulled off!) was \u201cWayne Green\u201d. It\u2019s been a long time since I thought about Wayne, and he\u2019d gotten a bit wacky, but he will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>I just had drinks with my buddy Il and his wife Anna. I got a last-minute text from them and I figured that the new parents probably had a grandparent give them a date night out. They wanted to have a quick drink and so I went to hung out for a while. Three drinks cost me more than dinner, but it was worth it, of course. They still seem more excited than overwhelmed and that\u2019s a good way to be.<\/p>\n<p>The only other excitement today was that I got to use my new lawnmower on my new lawn, and that my mom and I got \u2018flu shots. Only trivalent and not quadravalent, but you get what you can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is sad ham radio geek news but Wayne Green (who started a bunch of magazines I read as a teenager) just passed away at 91. Yeah, I\u2019m not talking about pr0n, but totally geeky stuff like 73, Byte, Kilobaud, and other very nerdy magazines. I saw him once at the ARRL National Convention in Seattle in 1980. In fact, when I was at the VICA National Skill Olympics in 1981, my buddy Roger and I had code words set up so I could make a collect call to tell him if I won or not. The code word for #1 (which I actually pulled off!) was \u201cWayne Green\u201d. It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wayne Green, R.I.P.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7675,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}