{"id":5830,"date":"2016-04-01T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T04:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/royal-order-of-the-wouff-hong\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T04:36:48","slug":"royal-order-of-the-wouff-hong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/royal-order-of-the-wouff-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Order of the Wouff Hong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wouff-hong.jpg' title='Royal Order of the Wouff Hong'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/wouff-hong.jpg' alt='Royal Order of the Wouff Hong' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a throwback post about the time that I became a member of a select amateur radio group known as the Royal Order of the Wouff Hong. It&#8217;s a long story as to the origination of the Order, but suffice it to say that to become a member, one must gather at midnight with members and witness a rather comical ritual performed on stage and thereafter learn the secret handshake and password.<\/p>\n<p>The midnight ritual occurred for me at the Southwestern Division Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) convention in August of 1987. A friend, Tom and I underwent the mystical event that night. Alcohol may have been a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a throwback post about the time that I became a member of a select amateur radio group known as the Royal Order of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}