{"id":85,"date":"2009-07-25T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-07-25T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T19:02:00","slug":"goodbye-borders-oxford-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/goodbye-borders-oxford-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Borders, Oxford Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we prefer to frequent independent bookstores, Borders on Oxford Street was always a handy place for a quick free read of the music mags, and there was always a good selection of books in store.<br \/>When it first opened, we used to quite like the cafe too &#8211; it was a handy place for meetings &#8211; but after it turned into a ruddy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/starbucks-protest.html\">Starbucks<\/a> franchise, we went elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Goodbye Borders, Oxford Street, Oxford Circus, London W1, 25th July 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/goodbye-borders-04.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos of what could be the last day of the store, with everything marked at half price.<\/p>\n<p>Borders have said that the lease has now been sold to a &#8216;fashion retailer.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"319\" alt=\"Goodbye Borders, Oxford Street, Oxford Circus, London W1, 25th July 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/goodbye-borders-02.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/goodbye-borders.html\">Borders closes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we prefer to frequent independent bookstores, Borders on Oxford Street was always a handy place for a quick free read of the music mags, and there was always a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/goodbye-borders-04.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}