{"id":133396,"date":"2025-10-20T06:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133396\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:55:06","slug":"stewards-of-wotton-under-edge-bookshop-celebrate-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133396\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stewards&#8217; of Wotton-under-Edge bookshop celebrate 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The couple purchased the property from two sisters who had inherited it from their father, and could not bear to see it redeveloped into flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were adamant they wanted it to stay as a bookshop so they did actually turn down other offers,&#8221; Mrs York said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we came along and said we&#8217;d like to buy the whole building for our family home and continue it as a bookshop, they said &#8216;yes, we&#8217;d love to sell it to you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so thankful they held out for the right people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the whole town&#8217;s bookshop,&#8221; Mr York added. &#8220;We are just the stewards of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple purchased the property from two sisters who had inherited it from their father, and could not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-133396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}