{"id":111676,"date":"2017-11-28T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:12:54","slug":"a-wireless-demonstration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/a-wireless-demonstration-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wireless Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p>In these days of I-phones, internet access, flat screen television and  interactive connectivity, the world of listening to the wireless  broadcast seems very prehistoric. But in the late 1920\u2019s the first  broadcasts cast a magical spell for some and a dismissive shrug for  others as, Vivian Oglivie in his book &#8216;Our Times&#8217; recalls his personal  experience of the wireless early, tentative days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember the  first time i heard the wireless. It was at our village institute in  Wedmore, Somerset. A couple of men came to give a demonstration to us  giggling yokels. The quality of sound was poor. Every now and then  something would go wrong. There would be a sudden fading or the  intrusion of shrikes, howls and splatterings&#8230;&#8230; It was not a very  impressive performance. It was only remarkable that it should have been  done at all. As we left the hall the older people wagged their heads  sagely and declared that nothing would come of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these days of I-phones, internet access, flat screen television and interactive connectivity, the world of listening to the wireless broadcast seems very prehistoric. But in the late 1920\u2019s the first broadcasts cast a magical spell for some and a dismissive shrug for others as, Vivian Oglivie in his book &#8216;Our Times&#8217; recalls his personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}