{"id":1030,"date":"2024-01-15T13:49:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2024-01-15T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T13:49:47","slug":"hattons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Hattons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a shame that Hattons has decided to close all their operations. Change is happening in the model railway world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">more expensive pieces of kit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">more individual models and more choice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the removal of pre-release models at discounts from suppliers such as Hornby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the universal use of the internet in buying models &#8211; there is no absolute need for a front end physical store and all internet stores appear to be equal &#8211; they really compete only on price (a bit on reputation too)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t think that model railways are a dying hobby &#8211; but I suspect that there will be yet more change in suppliers to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a shame that Hattons has decided to close all their operations. Change is happening in the model railway world: more expensive pieces of kit more individual models and more choice the removal of pre-release models at discounts from suppliers such as Hornby the universal use of the internet in buying models &#8211; there is no absolute need for a front end physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirurgean.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}