{"id":954,"date":"2021-02-01T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/?p=954"},"modified":"2021-02-01T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:39:21","slug":"mike-siegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/mike-siegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Siegel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brara.org\/BLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/16_w520-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5870\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">BEARS mourns the passing of Mike Siegel\/W2RT\u2026a longtime member and for years, chair of our volunteer examiner program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all his many years as a professional broadcast engineer and ham, Mike never lost the \u201cbig kid\u201d sense of wonder. He was a master technician who loved passing on what he knew to the generations that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a passionate BEARS supporter who was the driving force behind our volunteer examiner program &#8211; his dedication made it possible for scores of hams to get their first licenses and upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in his retired life, he went from old school to new school, teaching kids about robotics \u2014 and challenging them to imagine a wonderful future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the legacy of his life be a blessing and comfort to all who knew and loved him. It was an honor and privilege to call him colleague &#8211; and friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Howard Price<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-boca-raton wp-block-embed-boca-raton\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"habcy0M8x6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brara.org\/BLOG\/2019\/06\/06\/bio-michael-siegel-w2rt\/\">BIO: Michael Siegel W2RT<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;BIO: Michael Siegel W2RT&#8221; &#8212; Boca Raton\" src=\"https:\/\/brara.org\/BLOG\/2019\/06\/06\/bio-michael-siegel-w2rt\/embed\/#?secret=jc91d3R7Ua#?secret=habcy0M8x6\" data-secret=\"habcy0M8x6\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=BEARSW2ABC\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEARS mourns the passing of Mike Siegel\/W2RT\u2026a longtime member and for years, chair of our volunteer examiner program. For all his many years as a professional broadcast engineer and ham, Mike never lost the \u201cbig kid\u201d sense of wonder. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/mike-siegel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w2abc.org\/w2abc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}