{"id":96137,"date":"2021-06-26T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96137"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:18:51","slug":"in-praise-of-small-town-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/in-praise-of-small-town-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Small Town Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An abandoned storefront<br \/>\nsits sadly on the main street of a small town.<br \/>\nThe spread of chain stores<br \/>\nhas robbed America of individuality.<br \/>\nBox stores beat out neighborhood merchants<br \/>\nleaving the country impoverished of creativity and courage.<br \/>\nA skyscraper does not have the heart<br \/>\nof a weathered storefront<br \/>\neven though it stretches high as a passing cloud.<br \/>\nBetter to shop a store with three aisles<br \/>\nfor sourdough bread and periwinkle bedsheets<br \/>\nthan to feed the corporate coffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abandoned storefront sits sadly on the main street of a small town. The spread of chain stores has robbed America of individuality. Box stores beat out neighborhood merchants leaving the country impoverished of creativity and courage. A skyscraper does not have the heart of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96212,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96137\/revisions\/96212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}