{"id":6216,"date":"2014-01-19T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6216"},"modified":"2014-01-19T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:08:52","slug":"tradeshows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6216","title":{"rendered":"Tradeshows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have been my thing for a while, I know what I’m doing and setting and working them comes pretty naturally to me. Additionally, making it all happen and doing so on a budget- I’m all over it. So working with cheap people is a good deal of fun for me. They rent a house for the week, so five or eight people can sleep as cheaply as one- the price of a rental house for a week is about what two guys would pay for a night, and you have a house, a yard, often a pool and Jacuzzi, a garage, and in our case, this time, beds to sleep 15!<\/p>\n

It saves you a wad of cash and you can do a bit of shopping and get food as well, which heightens the savings- but the crew I was with, well, they don’t drink coffee, only tea.<\/p>\n

So each day I had to wait until I got out to the show to get some rich, rich caffeine into me. Since the time zone differed by a few hours by the time I got to the front of the line I was already in pain. <\/p>\n

Drinking the coffee on the way to the booth, I could feel the caffeine pushing the headache back slowly, and eventually, I was coherent. up until then, I had to work very hard to be civil to my compatriots, who I love, because what was really going on was this: <\/p>\n

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But once the pain was gone I saw a lot of things. Incredibly there were a lot of things that were made in the US, and I will be featuring many of them here. Watch this space.<\/p>\n

Oh, I didn’t take a lot of pictures preferring to use the individuals websites, and I didn’t want to take a chance on destroying my camera or losing it, so what pics I did take are cellphone, which are not too bad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have been my thing for a while, I know what I’m doing and setting and working them comes pretty naturally to me. Additionally, making it all happen and doing so on a budget- I’m all over it. So working with cheap people is a good deal of fun for me. They rent a house for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}