{"id":31475,"date":"2023-11-02T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31475"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:45:25","slug":"congratulations-to-the-bookstore-on-its-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31475","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to The Bookstore on its 25th anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023110201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Abingdon-on-Thames, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Thanks to Ian and his staff, and the shop&#8217;s commitment to providing excellent service and promoting local concerns, The Bookstore has continued for 25 years, even as Amazon and e-books have changed the landscape of the book industry. Ian said that their first-ever customer still visits the shop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023110202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTwo highlights for me, writing this blog, are the long queues that stretched down the precinct each time a new Harry Potter book was released and the long queues when Terry Wogan came to visit, not once but twice, and being able to meet the man. <\/p>\n<p>Today was quieter, with rain falling.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023110203.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIan also features in one of Geoff Dunbar&#8217;s cartoons in the Abingdon Museum Exhibition. Geoff had drawn an Abingdon bookseller from his youth and wanted to show him next to a contemporary bookseller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Abingdon-on-Thames, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month. Thanks to Ian and his staff, and the shop&#8217;s commitment to providing excellent service and promoting local concerns, The Bookstore has continued for 25 years, even as Amazon and e-books have changed the landscape of the book industry. Ian said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}