{"id":42158,"date":"2024-12-13T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=42158"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:06:37","slug":"profits-of-17-christmas-steps-traders-divided-over-extended-opening-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2024\/12\/13\/profits-of-17-christmas-steps-traders-divided-over-extended-opening-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Profits of \u00a317: Christmas Steps traders divided over extended opening hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/xmas-steps.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Traders on the Christmas Steps share their thoughts on the seasonal opening hours.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traders on Bristol&#8217;s Christmas Steps remain unconvinced by the value of their extended seasonal opening hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8216;late night shopping series&#8217; will be operating on the Thursdays in the run up to Christmas, so shoppers will be able to buy goods from local independent stores. Usually, these stores would be closed before the average 9-5 worker can purchase from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bristol City Council have endorsed this scheme, encouraging shop owners to participate throughout the festive season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders on Bristol&#8217;s Christmas Steps remain unconvinced by the value of their extended seasonal opening hours. The &#8216;late night shopping series&#8217; will be operating on the Thursdays in the run up to Christmas, so shoppers will be able to buy goods from local independent stores. Usually, these stores would be closed before the average 9-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":42177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42186,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42158\/revisions\/42186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}