{"id":843,"date":"2008-02-12T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/02\/12\/its-gotta-get-bad-before-it-gets-good\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:24:00","slug":"its-gotta-get-bad-before-it-gets-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Its gotta get bad before it gets good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08020909.jpg\" \/><br \/>Jimmy James of the Abingdon Market Traders appeared on BBC South Today in a feature about Oxfordshire Markets. Trade is down generally because of competition from large &#8216;under one roof&#8217; superstores. Younger people don&#8217;t use markets so much as their seniors. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08020911.jpg\" \/><br \/>Cargo has a Closing Down Sale. Notices say &#8216;Only this Store is closing&#8217;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08020910.jpg\" \/><br \/>Despite the &#8216;Sale Continues&#8217; notice, Stead &amp; Simpson has stayed closed. .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;Its gotta get bad before it gets good&#8221;<\/span> was on the soundtrack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e4.com\/skins\/\">Skins<\/a> tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy James of the Abingdon Market Traders appeared on BBC South Today in a feature about Oxfordshire Markets. Trade is down generally because of competition from large &#8216;under one roof&#8217; superstores. Younger people don&#8217;t use markets so much as their seniors. Cargo has a Closing Down Sale. Notices say &#8216;Only this Store is closing&#8217;Despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}