{"id":1203,"date":"2006-11-04T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/family-christian-bookstores.html"},"modified":"2006-11-04T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T19:34:00","slug":"family-christian-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/family-christian-bookstores\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Christian Bookstores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a Family Christian bookstore in Bowie Maryland last night. I hadn&#8217;t been there in a long time, and they changed a lot of things. One thing I noticed is that there are a lot FEWER BOOKS! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>It was starting to look more like a gift store than a bookstore. There was a large divider thingie with greeting cards and there was just more&#8230;.STUFF, but not as many books as I recall their having the last time I went there.<\/p>\n<p>Has anybody else noticed this? Are more Family Christian Bookstores turning into gift shops?<\/p>\n<p>Just wondering&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts or comments on this subject would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Cecelia Dowdy<br \/>www.ceceliadowdy.com<br \/>www.blackchristianfiction.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a Family Christian bookstore in Bowie Maryland last night. I hadn&#8217;t been there in a long time, and they changed a lot of things. One thing I noticed is that there are a lot FEWER BOOKS! \ud83d\ude41 It was starting to look more like a gift store than a bookstore. There was [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}