{"id":613,"date":"2018-04-14T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2018-04-14T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T22:35:00","slug":"art-bell-and-the-alien-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/14\/art-bell-and-the-alien-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Bell and the Alien Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now that Art Bell, known to radio amateurs as W6OBB, is now a silent key.  That&#8217;s what us ham ops call a dead guy.  Well Art may be physically dead, but I think he is alive somewhere (or many wheres) in time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-614\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/W6OBB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-614\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Bell, amateur radio operator and talk show host extraordinaire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My favorite memory of Art goes back to a show he probably did about 20 years ago.  I don&#8217;t remember the exact date, but he announced one night that if aliens were really trying to contact us we should agree upon a common radio frequency.  He threw a frequency out on the air and said that people should listen in case the aliens call.  So I listened.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, after some time listening to static, someone turned on a transmitter and started playing the sounds from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  I don&#8217;t know if it was transmitted by Art himself, but what a prankster.<\/p>\n<p>73 Art, you will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard by now that Art Bell, known to radio amateurs as W6OBB, is now a silent key. That&#8217;s what us ham ops call a dead guy. Well Art may be physically dead, but I think he is alive somewhere (or many wheres) in time. My favorite memory of Art goes back to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/14\/art-bell-and-the-alien-pirates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art Bell and the Alien Pirates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[104,100,101,105,102,103],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-radio","tag-aliens","tag-art-bell","tag-coast-to-coast-am","tag-paranormal","tag-premiere-networks","tag-w6obb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}