{"id":8096,"date":"2020-08-19T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2020-08-19T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:10:20","slug":"open-all-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/08\/19\/open-all-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Open all hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting little snippet of fact, for those writing historical fiction and accounts of Burslem.  We might casually assume that a modern 5.30pm closing-time had been norm since the 1860s, but it wasn&#8217;t so. Actually the shops, and presumably also the eateries, were open very late into the evening. I guess the attitude was, &#8220;if there&#8217;s trade to be had, we stay open&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/openlate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/openlate.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8097\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from a 1953 Coronation booklet issued by the town&#8217;s Traders, which gives a short outline history of the trading associations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting little snippet of fact, for those writing historical fiction and accounts of Burslem. We might casually assume that a modern 5.30pm closing-time had been norm since the 1860s, but it wasn&#8217;t so. Actually the shops, and presumably also the eateries, were open very late into the evening. I guess the attitude was, &#8220;if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}