{"id":5654,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:25:48","slug":"former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"Former Saab PR manager Jan-Willem Vester succumbs to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We here at Autoblog want to pass along our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jan-Willem Vester who passed away last night. Until last spring, Jan-Willem was the communications manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saab\/\">Saab<\/a> USA. In that role, the amiable Dutchman was always extremely helpful and prompt in answering our queries about Saab&#x27;s products and business.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond being a great PR guy, Vester was a singularly wonderful advocate for the troubled brand, and we had hoped he would find a prominent position with the Swedish automaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/report-even-while-pursuing-volvo-geely-again-mulling-bid-for-s\/\">should it ever find a new owner<\/a>. He wasn&#x27;t just a hired gun, but a true longtime fan, owning an older 900 back in the Netherlands and new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/saab\/9_5\/\">9-5<\/a> Sportcombi for carting around the family. In recent months, Vester had been fighting an inoperable brain tumor to which he finally succumbed.<\/p>\n<p>Jan-Willem is survived by his wife Mariska and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>[Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saabhistory.com\/category\/detroit-mi\/\">Saabhistory.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/07\/former-saab-pr-manager-jan-willem-vester-succumbs-to-illness\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-12-07T18:28:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We here at Autoblog want to pass along our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jan-Willem Vester who passed away last night. Until last spring, Jan-Willem was the communications manager for Saab USA. In that role, the amiable Dutchman\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9745,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/9745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}