{"id":365226,"date":"2025-08-22T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365226\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:57:12","slug":"shopkeeper-abdul-one-of-the-biggest-hearts-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/365226\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopkeeper Abdul \u2013 one of the biggest hearts in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>like this and boil water and a bit of honey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey come back and say \u2018wow that was amazing\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Safy said his big sellers are staples: bread, milk and butter while others come-in for fizzy drinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest with you, everything sells. Weekend, people like to drink alcohol. It\u2019s quite a nice community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the heart messages described the shop as \u201cthe heartbeat of the community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another has the message \u201cAbdul\n<\/p>\n<p>Mimi was there when the New Journal dropped in on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is not my cat,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can\u2019t have a cat in the shop. When I\u2019m sitting outside, she won\u2019t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>She spends five to six hours with me. People on the street take photos of me and show them to me. They are so cute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another regular is Patricia, who has lived in the area for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone loves Abdul,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s the best, believe me. Thousands around here rely on him, particularly the old people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Safy said he had enjoyed seeing three generations of Patricia\u2019s family pass through the shop and has fond memories of meeting her 11-year-old grand- daughter after she had been born.<\/p>\n<p>And Mr Safy said he was a big fan of the New Journal, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s important for older people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you print my story, you\u2019ll be surprised how many people will read it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"like this and boil water and a bit of honey. \u201cThey come back and say \u2018wow that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[61001,748,28057,5554,393,4884,257,18394,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-365226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-belsize-park","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-camden","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-the-camden-new-journal","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115073715067244375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365226","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=365226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}