{"id":5149,"date":"2018-12-28T19:33:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2018-12-28T19:33:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:33:59","slug":"a-sad-day-in-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5149","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Day In The U.k"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last remnants of HMV are in trouble in the United Kingdom according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/2200-jobs-at-risk-as-hmv-on-brink-of-administration-11593091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sky News (opens in a new tab)\">Sky News<\/a>, a year and a half after closing in Canada.<br><br>Founded in 1921 in London, this music store flourished and became Britain&#8217;s largest music retailer until running into financial issues in 2010 due to the shift towards digital music and film, which resulted in the closure of the World&#8217;s Largest Music Store on Oxford Street on January 14th, 2014 and Irish chain in August 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the chain has entered administration for the second time since January 5th, 2011 and at risk are 130 stores and 2200 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last remnants of HMV are in trouble in the United Kingdom according to Sky News, a year and a half after closing in Canada. Founded in 1921 in London, this music store flourished and became Britain&#8217;s largest music retailer until running into financial issues in 2010 due to the shift towards digital music and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[1256,988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}