Ted Fuller of Lafayette, California writes:<\/p>\n
“My friend has a gift store in the\u00a0downtown area of Antioch, an older suburban city in California. At night, nearly all the shops shut down and the streets are almost deserted.<\/p>\n
“She’s tried without success to stir up some action with the merchants association. After a brief period of remaining open at night, she gave up.<\/p>\n
“Perhaps your readers can give her some tips.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ted Fuller of Lafayette, California writes: “My friend has a gift store in the\u00a0downtown area of Antioch, an older suburban city in California. At night, nearly all the shops shut down and the streets are almost deserted. “She’s tried without success to stir up some action with the merchants association. After a brief period of\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":15,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[623,621],"class_list":{"0":"post-1030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-brick-mortar","8":"tag-retail-marketing","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41078,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/41078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}