{"id":398,"date":"2008-08-28T20:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/398"},"modified":"2008-08-28T20:03:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T00:03:47","slug":"local-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/398","title":{"rendered":"Local color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bookstore down the road a ways gets a notice in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookride.com\/\">Bookride<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A bookseller on Route 1 in Porstmouth NH recently got in the papers yet again &#8211; he makes Bernard look like John Inman (&#8216;Are you Being Served?&#8217;)&#8211;he charges a $5 browsing fee and has been known to knock out customers who venture in his shop without permission. I had heard of him over the years as an example of a dealer who had seriously lost the plot and have always been amazed that he stays in business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookride.com\/2008\/08\/bastards-with-bookshops.html\">Go and RTWT<\/a> &#8211; the man is nuts. I was warned away from there 15 years ago by a friend who told me about the browsing fee and the generally threatening (&#8220;Why should I sell you my books, you POS?&#8221;) vibe. Portsmouth Herald article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seacoastonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080819\/NEWS\/80819036\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bookstore down the road a ways gets a notice in Bookride: A bookseller on Route 1 in Porstmouth NH recently got in the papers yet again &#8211; he makes Bernard look like John Inman (&#8216;Are you Being Served?&#8217;)&#8211;he charges &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-6q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}