{"id":98483,"date":"2015-10-11T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=98483"},"modified":"2015-10-11T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:30:11","slug":"old-bookshops-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=98483","title":{"rendered":"Old bookshops under siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ON the south side of Piccadilly, one of Londons busiest thoroughfares, is Hatchards, a bookseller that has been turning pages for more than two hundred years. It has ghosts walking in it, of Dickens, Wilde, Disraeli and Byron, and every day, as more authors pass through to sign books or merely to browse, loiter or just to see their works displayed on shelves or in windows, more names are added to its hall of fame. Founded in 1797, it is easily the oldest bookshop in London, though the honour of being the oldest in the country goes to the bookshop at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1MlbSSk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON the south side of Piccadilly, one of Londons busiest thoroughfares, is Hatchards, a bookseller that has been turning pages for more than two hundred&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98484,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98483\/revisions\/98484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}