{"id":75,"date":"2005-09-02T19:28:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T03:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2005-09-06T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T05:43:38","slug":"the-almanac-can-this-bookstore-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/the-almanac-can-this-bookstore-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Almanac: Can this bookstore be saved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrea Gemmet has a story<\/a> on the Almanac’s site about the possibility of saving the bookstore. <\/p>\n

There’s a chance — a chance — that Kepler’s Books & Magazines in downtown Menlo Park may not be as dead as everyone feared.<\/p>\n

The sudden demise of the popular independent bookstore following Clark Kepler\u2019s short, emotional announcement at a 9 a.m. all-staff meeting held Wednesday, August 31, reverberated up and down the Peninsula, as the store\u2019s many devotees reacted with shock, sorrow and disbelief. Almost as soon as word got around that the bookstore was shuttered and locked, there was talk of saving Kepler’s.
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\nMr. Kepler said he was still preparing to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection last week, but he had not yet done so.<\/p>\n

“I’m running 100 miles an hour in opposite directions,” he said of his discussions with potential investors and the bankruptcy proceedings. “It’s very draining. At the end of the day, my head is spinning and I’m asking myself, \u2018What am I doing?\u2019 But I get up in the morning and keep doing it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Gemmet has a story on the Almanac’s site about the possibility of saving the bookstore. There’s a chance — a chance — that Kepler’s Books & Magazines in downtown Menlo Park may not be as dead as everyone feared. The sudden demise of the popular independent bookstore following Clark Kepler\u2019s short, emotional announcement at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}