{"id":521,"date":"2012-11-03T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T08:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=521"},"modified":"2012-11-03T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T08:33:26","slug":"charing-cross-road-re-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Charing Cross Road Re-Visited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the new job has been started and I&#8217;m now working up in London in an area that I used to visit quite a bit 10 years ago when I was a student.\u00a0 Having now walked along the Charing Cross Road several times I&#8217;ve observed the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A number of the book shops are missing having been replaced with clothes and shoe shops or eateries.\u00a0 This includes Waterstone&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a great gap in the sky line where the Astoria theatre used to be.<\/li>\n<li>Orc&#8217;s nest, Foyles, Blackwell&#8217;s,, The Salsa restuarant and the musical instrument shops are still there.<\/li>\n<li>The Sainsbury&#8217;s at the bottom of Tottenham Court Road is actually quite a busy place as opposed to the place I used to get my lunch on a Saturday when going to the computer fair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also discovered that the location of my job has a few fringe benefits that I hadn&#8217;t thought about.\u00a0 Just round the corner from it are the British Museum, The Photographer&#8217;s Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, Orc&#8217;s Nest, Forbidden Planet, Covent Garden and more places to eat than you can shake a stick at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the new job has been started and I&#8217;m now working up in London in an area that I used to visit quite a bit 10 years ago when I was a student.\u00a0 Having now walked along the Charing Cross Road several times I&#8217;ve observed the following. A number of the book shops are missing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charing Cross Road Re-Visited<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AfOo-8p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}