{"id":1483,"date":"2016-12-21T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2016-12-20T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:27:36","slug":"supporting-local-businesses-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Local Businesses at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1484\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1484\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1484 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Michael Fallon Graces Fashion Accessories\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories-1200x900.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Graces-Fashion-Accessories.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Michael showed his support\u00a0for local businesses earlier this month with a visit to Sevenoaks town centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1485\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1485\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1485 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Sevenoaks-Computers-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Michael Fallon Sevenoaks Computers\" width=\"293\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Sevenoaks-Computers-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Sevenoaks-Computers-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Sevenoaks-Computers-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Sir-Michael-Fallon-Sevenoaks-Computers.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 85vw, 293px\" \/><\/a>He\u00a0met business owners on from high street shops and small businesses such as The Chinaman, Sevenoaks Bookshop, Barkers and Grace to talk about the busy lead up to Christmas and their efforts to attract customers. \u00a0He was joined by\u00a0Sevenoaks District Council Leader, Cllr Peter Fleming and Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Cllr Roddy Hogarth.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;I was pleased to visit these thriving local businesses at such a busy time of the year.\u00a0They really are the lifeblood of Sevenoaks\u2019 economy and this was an excellent opportunity to hear about their latest progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael showed his support\u00a0for local businesses earlier this month with a visit to Sevenoaks town centre. He\u00a0met business owners on from high street shops and small businesses such as The Chinaman, Sevenoaks Bookshop, Barkers and Grace to talk about the busy lead up to Christmas and their efforts to attract customers. \u00a0He was joined by\u00a0Sevenoaks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supporting Local Businesses at Christmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8,46,11,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}