{"id":158,"date":"2018-09-08T15:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=158"},"modified":"2018-09-08T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:46:43","slug":"another-damned-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2018\/09\/another-damned-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Another damned badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one is the Phase 4 Ground Trans-Ionospheric Badge, and it&#8217;s got a ton of cute visualizations on the screen, games, customizations (name and call sign), and even some actual contact logging\/QSO functionality.\u00a0 Another one where the maker decided to undercut the eBay upsellers by doing another run (or maybe there were just leftovers, who knows?).\u00a0 Maybe this trend will keep the badge-scalpers at bay, and keep the prices down to &#8220;moderately outrageous&#8221; for those of us who can&#8217;t seem to say no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I could tell you which was my favorite of all the badges out there, but I can&#8217;t compare function to form in an articulable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mvimg_20180908_1541264259074851509771588.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is the Phase 4 Ground Trans-Ionospheric Badge, and it&#8217;s got a ton of cute visualizations on the screen, games, customizations (name and call sign), and even some actual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2018\/09\/another-damned-badge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another damned badge&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badges","tag-badgelife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}