{"id":5006,"date":"2018-12-02T00:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/politicians-should-do-more-to-save-our-high-streets\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T00:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T00:59:52","slug":"politicians-should-do-more-to-save-our-high-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/politicians-should-do-more-to-save-our-high-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Politicians should do more to save our High Streets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Billionaire Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct and owner of Newcastle United runs a sprawling retail empire &#8211; including sportswear brands, House of Fraser, Evans Cycles, lingerie firm Agent Provocateur, luxury fashion chain Flannels &#8211; and major shareholdings in Debenhams and French Connection.<\/p>\n<p>With many bricks-and-mortar stores struggling due to a combination of rising rents and increasing online competition, could Mr Ashley prove to be their saviour? He himself says &#8220;politicians and landlords should be doing more to save our struggling High Streets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46405272\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct and owner of Newcastle United runs a sprawling retail empire &#8211; including sportswear brands, House of Fraser, Evans Cycles, lingerie firm Agent Provocateur, luxury fashion chain Flannels &#8211; and major shareholdings in Debenhams and French Connection. With many bricks-and-mortar stores struggling due to a combination of rising &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}