{"id":1114,"date":"2023-02-26T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2023-02-26T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:13:31","slug":"birmingham-guitar-show-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Guitar Show &#8217;23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My annual visit to this show, this time at Cranmore Park, Solihull. Parking was a bit of a problem but that is normal. I visited a few specific stands, but this post is mainly pictures of some of the stranger guitars. (I like strange and weird stuff). <br>Links to more from the show:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1131\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1131\">Alhambra Guitarras<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1135\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1135\">Crimson Guitars<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1127\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1127\">Ortega Guitars<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1124\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/?p=1124\">V Sleeve Guitar Protector<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230225_114951774_HDR-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">ATB Guitars.  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Parking was a bit of a problem but that is normal. I visited a few specific stands, but this post is mainly pictures of some of the stranger guitars. (I like strange and weird stuff). Links to more from the show:Alhambra GuitarrasCrimson GuitarsOrtega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-guitar-show"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p536vY-hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutguitars.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}