{"id":8703,"date":"2020-03-16T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2020-03-16T04:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:24:46","slug":"2020-dayton-hamvention-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=8703","title":{"rendered":"2020 Dayton Hamvention canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/dayton-hamvention-announces-cancelation-of-2020-show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in its 68-year history, Dayton Hamvention\u00ae will not take place this year, due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. The glum news was not entirely unexpected, given&nbsp;widespread cancelations of public gatherings and a national state of emergency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Hamvention Executive Committee has been monitoring the COVID19 pandemic. We have worked very closely with our local and state health departments. It is with a very heavy heart the Hamvention Executive Committee has decided to cancel Hamvention for this year,\u201d Hamvention General Chair Jack Gerbs, WB8SCT, said in announcing the cancelation on March 15. \u201cThis decision is extremely difficult for us, but with around 2 months until the Great Gathering we felt this action necessary. More specific details regarding the closure will soon be posted. Thank you for your understanding in this time of international crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/dayton-hamvention-announces-cancelation-of-2020-show For the first time in its 68-year history, Dayton Hamvention\u00ae will not take place this year, due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. The glum news was not entirely unexpected, given&nbsp;widespread cancelations of public gatherings and a national state of emergency.&nbsp; \u201cThe Hamvention Executive Committee has been monitoring the COVID19 pandemic. We have worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[452,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}