{"id":1899,"date":"2004-03-22T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/22\/1899.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:25","slug":"oh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/22\/oh-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, no!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I never made it into the new location, and as I no longer live in the town, it won&#8217;t affect me personally, but makes me sad that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com\/home.php3\">Avenue Victor Hugo<\/a> will not be there anymore.\n<p>For some time, the shop was on a path I frequently walked, and I had to avoid going in, because I spent $20 or so every time I went in, and I was broke. It was, simply, the best used-book store I ever frequented, and that&#8217;s saying a lot. The fact that their prices were probably <I>too<\/I> good to refuse isn&#8217;t a complaint of mine, but might have led to their ultimate demise. Oh, and they never came through on book searches; I left four or five notes over the years, and never once heard from them. Not that I cared, particularly. It was a great browsing store, and that&#8217;s what I liked.\n<p>Feh. I haven&#8217;t bought anything at an independent or used bookstore for ... um, a couple of weeks. I haven&#8217;t bought a new book at an independent store for, um, three months? A while, anyway. Now that I no longer work in a consumer paradise, I need to make an effort to shop. And shopping for books is one of my favorite things to do.\n<p>Anyway, if you drop by the Ave. for the farewell sale, give the old place a goodbye for me, even if it&#8217;s not the same place.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never made it into the new location, and as I no longer live in the town, it won\u2019t affect me personally, but makes me sad that the Avenue Victor Hugo will not be there anymore. For some time, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16963,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/16963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}