{"id":311567,"date":"2025-08-02T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311567\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:30:15","slug":"ballyhackamore-businesses-defend-areas-mojo-after-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311567\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballyhackamore businesses defend area\u2019s \u2018mojo\u2019 after closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ballyhackamore business owners dispute suggestions the area has &quot;lost its mojo&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/be181aee-8f56-4835-8ae2-0a9603f3eac4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ballyhackamore business owners dispute suggestions the area has &#8220;lost its mojo&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ballyhackamore is a byword for gentrification in Belfast, and a stand-out example of the way traditional neighbourhoods have had bohemian makeovers in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Once a road of bakeries, newsagents and fruit and veg markets, it is now full of artisan coffee and food shops and boutique stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballyhackamore business owners dispute suggestions the area has &#8220;lost its mojo&#8221; Ballyhackamore is a byword for gentrification in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[29366,9085,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-east-belfast-news","9":"tag-james-mcnaney","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114958475180352003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}