{"id":1456,"date":"2011-12-14T06:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2011-12-14T06:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:22:56","slug":"northfield-carriage-ride-features-trip-through-historic-barnes-noble-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Northfield Carriage Ride Features Trip Through Historic Borders Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Northfield is offering carriage rides as an additional incentive for people to shop in Northfield this Holiday season. Along with being able to see Target, Bass Pro Shops, the movie theatre, and a random barrage of other shops, riders will be able to experience the parking lot of a classic bookstore, long since closed down.\n\u201cIt was real neat to be able to tell our kids how we used to buy books in stores,\u201d says Stapleton resident Mike Victoria. \u201cThe kids were so intrigued when we explained that we used to read books in paper form. It was just a real trip in the past that all kids don\u2019t get to experience.\u201d\n<!--more-->\nLong ago, Northfield had a bookstore, Borders, where you could walk inside, get coffee, relax and read, and maybe even pick out a book to buy. That concept is long gone, much like that of the local retailer. As everyone knows, books are now simply purchased on computers or other handheld devices and read on the screens.\n\u201cLike everything else in life, we do not want to forget about our past and what other generations went through,\u201d said local historian Brad Kallaway. \u201cI wish we could have preserved the store as a historic landmark to give tours through.\u201d\nWhile taking the carriage tours, riders are asked to soak in all that is Northfield, including the modern day shops like Charming Charlie, and of course, the historic Borders parking lot.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-19","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}