{"id":6766,"date":"2012-01-05T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2012-01-05T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:00:43","slug":"why-we-close-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=6766","title":{"rendered":"Why We Close for a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year we close the store for one to two weeks after the holidays. This year we are only taking this week off. Our Christmas was so busy we thought it best to be open for folks to use gift cards and bring visiting family into the store and then close. Some readers might think we’re crazy, but in a rural town we have a little more latitude to be more human than a larger store in a big city where there are expectations of being open 362 days a year, closing only for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
\nOur town is such that our customers actually applaud us for just shutting the doors and giving staff a real rest and allowing people to have quality family time. Commerce is not the driving force of our decision to be booksellers. It’s about connecting with people and helping them find the right book. And after the Christmas season we had, shuttering the doors is the only real way to recharge our batteries.
\nBecause we are closed this week, we are also going very light on the blog posts. Nothing says a true vacation then actually having nothing hanging over our heads. I encourage readers to revisit the Who’s Winning Awards in January <\/a>and make some predictions for the upcoming ALA Midwinter announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year we close the store for one to two weeks after the holidays. Some readers might think we’re crazy, but in a rural town we have a little more latitude to be more human than a larger store in a big city where there are expectations of being open 362 days a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}