{"id":205,"date":"2005-11-24T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=205"},"modified":"2005-11-24T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T22:12:32","slug":"things-to-be-thankful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Things to be thankful for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/wp-content\/ham.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"172\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ham\" \/><br \/>\nWe got this message from <strong>Mark K8MHZ<\/strong> today, and I felt it was prudent, considering it&#8217;s Thanksgiving and all. The repeater is yours, Mark&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today is the day that everyone (mostly) gathers together to give thanks.  The usual givings are for family, friends and health.<\/p>\n<p>But if you are reading this, you also are part of ham radio, and think of what there is to be thankful for because of that.<\/p>\n<p>We are part of the greatest hobby on the planet, the granddaddy of all hobbies. <\/p>\n<p>A hobby that can put us across the mike from kings, queens, astronauts, teachers, diplomats, soldiers, engineers and just plain nice folks.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby that provides us with life long friendships, friendships which are not restricted by distances. <\/p>\n<p>A hobby that provides us with knowledge, both technical and interpersonal.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby that provides us with experiences, like the one&#8217;s myself and Ken Groom, ZR5AAD have had at the Air Fair.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby that gives us new names, we wear our call signs proud, and always include them in our introductions to new hams.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby that can teach us a way to communicate with one and other without the use of voice, regardless of language, even regardless of the ability to see or hear.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby steeped in tradition, yet thriving upon technology allowing folks that cherish the old and embrace the new to work together heading in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby that puts the young and the old on the same level, both happy to be there.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby to be proud of, a hobby we bring our children into with pride.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby consisting of the finest people in the world, both as grandiose and as fragile as the environment.<\/p>\n<p>A hobby to be nurtured and protected so that we may leave it in better shape than how we found it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for being part of my hobby,<\/p>\n<p>73 OMs and YLs de Mark K8MHZ<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got this message from Mark K8MHZ today, and I felt it was prudent, considering it&#8217;s Thanksgiving and all. The repeater is yours, Mark&#8230;. Today is the day that everyone (mostly) gathers together to give thanks. The usual givings are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/?p=205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamsexyness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamsexy.com\/cms\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}