{"id":9327,"date":"2014-12-17T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2014-12-17T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:04:16","slug":"no-charge-from-business-made-readers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/no-charge-from-business-made-readers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo charge\u201d from business made reader\u2019s day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to pull off Yonge Street and Murray Drive recently as something was wrong with my glasses. The nose piece thingy had broken off.
\nWhen the gentleman at the optical store there handed the repaired glasses back to me, there was no charge.
\nThat sort of thing to me is about as rare as a doctor who makes house calls, and most welcomed.
\nMaybe there is a Santa.
\nMerry Christmas everyone!<\/p>\n

Bill Hack
\nAurora<\/strong>
\n
\n(Editor\u2019s note: Yes, Bill, there is a Santa Claus.)<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to pull off Yonge Street and Murray Drive recently as something was wrong with my glasses. The nose piece thingy had broken off. When the gentleman at the optical store there handed the repaired glasses back to me, there was no charge. That sort of thing to me is about as rare as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2qr","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:20:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}