{"id":81,"date":"2006-03-31T06:19:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T06:19:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1143803959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1143803959\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman laments bookshop merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,1743746,00.html\">The Guardian<\/a> writes: &#8220;Several of Britain&#39;s leading authors reacted with dismay yesterday after the way was cleared for HMV, the books and music group which owns the high street chain Waterstone&#39;s, to take over Ottakar&#39;s, the specialist books company. &#8230; Philip Pullman said he &#39;lamented the loss of a genuine bookseller like Ottakar&#39;s &#8230; Little bookshops in country towns rely on bestsellers at Christmas and other exciting times to pay their rent.&#39;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,1743746,00.html\">Read more.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian writes: &#8220;Several of Britain&#39;s leading authors reacted with dismay yesterday after the way was cleared for HMV, the books and music group which owns the high street chain Waterstone&#39;s, to take over Ottakar&#39;s, the specialist books company. &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1143803959\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}