{"id":590,"date":"2009-01-14T21:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:30:51","slug":"2009-cv-show-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/590","title":{"rendered":"2009 CV Show Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 CV Show at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/Birmingham\" target=\"_self\">Birmingham<\/a> NEC has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is not entirely surprising &#8211; just a couple of days ago<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/579\" target=\"_self\"> I reported<\/a> that exhibitor numbers had slumped with virtually\u00a0 all van and truck manufacturers having pulled out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/story\/CV-Show-2009-cancelled\/49189\" target=\"_blank\">Fleet News is now reporting<\/a> that the show has been cancelled due to a lack of support by exhibitors for the concept of refocusing the event to be a transport engineering show.<\/p>\n<p>Better luck for 2010 &#8211; hopefully the economy will have bottomed out by then and there maybe enough positive sentiment to generate some enthusiasm (and funding) to make the show viable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 CV Show has been cancelled &#8211; basically because almost no vehicle manufacturers were attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}