{"id":29368,"date":"2024-08-23T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29368"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T08:45:50","slug":"do-you-have-a-branch-of-gails-in-your-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29368","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a branch of Gail&#8217;s in your neighbourhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m fascinated by the sudden debate about the desirability or otherwise of having a branch of Gail\u2019s in your neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the end of the first Covid lockdown, we\u2019ve had a Gail\u2019s at the corner of my street in London\u2019s South Bank, so close that I can see it from my flat window. I use it all the time to buy lunch or have coffee with friends. I know and like Walthamstow Village where there is opposition to a new branch of Gail\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I\u2019ll follow the debate. Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/gails-bakery-middle-class-england-political-upmarket-chain-libdems?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawE1K2ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZAov4Rh14IwTeBnIy9Z02tLow1Q3KSPlpuECrTYktmRO44H-7CQh9-qJg_aem_3N48yxa0dD3TSEnmJXUolg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/gails-bakery-middle-class-england-political-upmarket-chain-libdems?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawE1K2ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZAov4Rh14IwTeBnIy9Z02tLow1Q3KSPlpuECrTYktmRO44H-7CQh9-qJg_aem_3N48yxa0dD3TSEnmJXUolg\">today\u2019s \u201cGuardian\u201d article<\/a> tells me something I didn\u2019t know &#8211; the origin of the chain\u2019s name: \u201cGail\u2019s was founded by an Israeli baker, Gail Mejia, in the 1990s, initially as a wholesale bakery in Hendon, supplying London\u2019s restaurants. The site still exists and is described as its &#8216;mother&#8217; bakery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m fascinated by the sudden debate about the desirability or otherwise of having a branch of Gail\u2019s in your neighbourhood. Since the end of the first Covid lockdown, we\u2019ve had a Gail\u2019s at the corner of my street in London\u2019s South Bank, so close that I can see it from my flat window. I use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29370,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29368\/revisions\/29370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}