{"id":677558,"date":"2010-02-24T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23283"},"modified":"2010-02-24T12:05:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:05:55","slug":"save-watkins-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677558","title":{"rendered":"Save Watkins Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23284\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Watkins-bookshop.jpg?resize=250%2C203\" alt=\"Watkins bookshop\" width=\"250\" height=\"203\" \/>For anyone interested in esoteric and occult books, one of the very finest shops in the world is London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watkinsbooks.co.uk\/\">Watkins Books<\/a>. For those of you with deep pockets, please dig deep and buy the business out of bankruptcy\/administration. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/113633-cecil-court-institution-watkins-books-in-administration.html\">The Bookseller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>London&#8217;s oldest esoteric bookshop and Cecil Court &#8216;institution&#8217; Watkins Books has gone into administration with 11 members of staff losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshop, which was founded in 1897 and moved to Cecil Court in 1901, closed down yesterday (23rd February), following the appointment of administrator Harris Lipman. A sign displayed on the shop&#8217;s window read: &#8220;Shop Closed Today&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Bryars, secretary of the Cecil Court Association, told The Bookseller that it had &#8220;taken everybody by surprise&#8221;. It is understood that trading had been slower than usual, for a number of reasons&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone interested in esoteric and occult books, one of the very finest shops in the world is London&#8217;s Watkins Books. For those of you with deep pockets, please dig deep and buy the business out of bankruptcy\/administration. From The Bookseller: London&#8217;s oldest esoteric bookshop and Cecil Court &#8216;institution&#8217; Watkins Books has gone into administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qgm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}