{"id":884,"date":"2022-05-26T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steinkrug.com\/magazine\/?p=884"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T11:53:48","slug":"cebit92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/2022\/05\/26\/cebit92\/","title":{"rendered":"CeBit 92"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">CeBIT usually opened shortly after the Which Computer Show in Birmingham closed. A 40-ton truck is the largest vehicle you could drive without a HGV licence. So, a chance to indulge my fantasy of being a long-distance lorry driver and transport our stand and equipment to and from the Birmingham NEC. I was not brave enough, though, to do the same for the Hannover trip, so we would recruit a driver. It was while driving south on the M1 that the snow turned from intermittent flurries into a pebble-dashed windscreen storm. It took two hours to complete the last thirty miles back to Cambridgeshire, where we left the truck parked outside my house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The truck set off for Hannover four hours late; it took that long for the crane to lift it out of the ditch &#8230;<br><br><br>&#8230;&nbsp;<em>(An extract from The Ghost in the Labyrinth by Peter Kruger)<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CeBIT usually opened shortly after the Which Computer Show in Birmingham closed. A 40-ton truck is the largest vehicle you could drive without a HGV licence. So, a chance to indulge my fantasy of being <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/2022\/05\/26\/cebit92\/\" title=\"CeBit 92\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-digithurst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinkrug.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}