{"id":7147,"date":"2026-07-08T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:18:07","slug":"sad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=7147","title":{"rendered":"Sad News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevesmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steve&#8217;s Music<\/a> will be closing after 60 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Montreal music instrument dealer had consolidated their operations in March this year, closing their Ottawa, Toronto, Greenfield Park and Dollard-Des-Ormeaux stores in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sluggish sales after Covid, mounting tariffs and higher costs caused the company to reconsider their online presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve&#8217;s Music will be closing after 60 years. The Montreal music instrument dealer had consolidated their operations in March this year, closing their Ottawa, Toronto, Greenfield Park and Dollard-Des-Ormeaux stores in February. Sluggish sales after Covid, mounting tariffs and higher costs caused the company to reconsider their online presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[1622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147"}],"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=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}