{"id":4719,"date":"2012-10-31T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2012-10-31T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T03:15:00","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/change\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Paris Saloon and Klinik Kasut Osman in Ipoh Garden, Ipoh, Perak (circa 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Traditional shops everywhere are being phased out by changing trends and diminishing demand. The neighbourhood barber, the family-run grocer, the &#8216;hole-in-the-wall&#8217; newspaper vendor, the medical hall, the roadside cobbler; to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Many such entities have already vanished silently, without a visual record. While we can&#8217;t stop change, we can do one thing. We can document the remaining ones for future generations.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Be the change that you wish to see in the world<\/em>\u201d ~ <em>Mahatma Gandhi<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4720\" title=\"Barber and street cobbler in Ipoh Garden, Ipoh, Perak (circa 2008)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris.jpg\" alt=\"Barber and street cobbler in Ipoh Garden, Ipoh, Perak (circa 2008)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/barber_ipoh_new_paris-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many types of traditional businesses are being phased out by changing trends&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,563,8,9],"tags":[1061,822,55,781,114,554,1059,558,64,1060],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-instagram","category-life","category-photography","tag-facade","tag-heritage","tag-history","tag-ipoh","tag-olympus","tag-retro","tag-shops","tag-snapseed","tag-street","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4740,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}