{"id":15333,"date":"2013-06-04T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2013\/06\/04\/death-of-the-high-street\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:12","slug":"death-of-the-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2013\/06\/04\/death-of-the-high-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the High Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> Aww, D.R. Simpson is closing. The newsagent\/bookshop was one of the last hold-outs in Wick, but apparently the costs and the competition from chains stores on the outskirts of town have finally done them in.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-NZTDrM4yT6k\/Ua26dJ_4kbI\/AAAAAAAAGHs\/PFxDbsEniPY\/s758\/Photo%2525204%252520Jun%2525202013%25252010%25253A52%252520AM.jpg.webp\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1366\/death-of-the-high-street03.jpg.webp\" id=\"blogsy-1370339960650.8384\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>Funny that the shop-owners we spoke to in Stromness responded with pity when we said we were visiting from Wick. Stromness is hardly a big place, but it and Kirkwall (the two main towns on the Orkney Islands) have a self-generated spirit and culture about them that Wick, well, doesn&#8217;t.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div> <\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aww, D.R. Simpson is closing. The newsagent\/bookshop was one of the last hold-outs in Wick, but apparently the costs and the competition from chains stores on the outskirts of town have finally done them in. Funny that the shop-owners we spoke to in Stromness responded with pity when we said we were visiting from Wick. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}