{"id":655,"date":"2010-10-15T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T00:27:33","slug":"back-from-the-osp-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/back-from-the-osp-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the OSP Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  I spent a couple days in San Antonio, walking the floor at the OSP Expo and talking to the vendors, manufacturers and distributors on hand.  It was&#8230; interesting.<br \/>\n  About a year ago, at the ICUEE show in Louisville, there was a sense of optimism.  We had come through &#8220;the worst of it&#8221; and everyone was excited to still be on the ground and getting things done.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more Continue Reading This Post--><br \/>\n  This year, we&#8217;re <strong>still<\/strong> going through the worst of it!  There were new products at the show, but most people were satisfied with the status quo.  I think it&#8217;s worth noting though: we&#8217;re still here and we&#8217;re still getting things done.  Despite everything.  That&#8217;s a pretty big achievement in itself.<br \/>\n  I stopped in for a sales call after the show and found some optimism in San Antonio, after all.  He said, &#8220;Yeah, we&#8217;re close to the bone, but people are still working, so business is still going.&#8221;<br \/>\n  Here&#8217;s a photo from the trip: of the Mission Concepcion, a couple miles downriver of The Alamo.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Mission-Concepcion.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Concepcion\" title=\"Mission Concepcion\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-657\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple days in San Antonio, walking the floor at the OSP Expo and talking to the vendors, manufacturers and distributors on hand. It was&#8230; interesting. About a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[216,217,218,219,220,47],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-room","tag-alamo","tag-osp","tag-road-trip","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-trade-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}