{"id":449,"date":"2026-05-01T02:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/?p=449"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:16:54","slug":"like-i-was-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"like I was saying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I miss the simpler (and better) times that were the 2010s. Back when radio <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Radio_Netherlands_Worldwide\">Netherlands<\/a> operated it radio broadcast, which i could revcieve on my handheld shortwave reciever. But alas the halcyon days couldn&#8217;t last forever. As we all know time waits for no man. And funding for radio Netherlands english service ended ~2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and unfortunately on that note I do have to consider my dreams of worldwide travel to be exactly that&#8230;nothing more than a pipe dream. Ill suppose ill have to sleep on this dissapointment now. Damn the cold heart of this realist! At least I don&#8217;t have to hear about the day-to-day activities of the Dutch&#8230;sob sob sob. I miss it so immensely \ud83d\ude1e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the simpler (and better) times that were the 2010s. Back when radio Netherlands operated it radio broadcast, which i could revcieve on my handheld shortwave reciever. But alas the halcyon days couldn&#8217;t last forever. As we all know time waits for no man. And funding for radio Netherlands english service ended ~2014 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/?p=449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;like I was saying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljohnston.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}