{"id":5218,"date":"2023-05-13T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2023-05-13T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T11:52:46","slug":"tales-from-the-town-109-market-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2023\/05\/13\/tales-from-the-town-109-market-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From The Town #109: Market Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How much is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound. Everything&#8217;s a pound,&#8221; Simon said, simultaneously pointing to the sign that said, &#8220;Everything \u00a31&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh,&#8221; said Claire. She opened up her palm a fraction and counted out her coins again. &#8220;Urgh. Wait, how much is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can&#8217;t ALL be a pound!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is so unfair!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound. Everything&#8217;s a pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told Daniel we shouldn&#8217;t have bought those penny sweets!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we bought those penny sweets!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I DON&#8217;T EVEN LIKE PENNY SWEETS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A pound,&#8221; said Simon, dreaming of pounds. &#8220;Everything&#8217;s a pound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Written on March 30th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br><h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support An Accumulation Of Things<\/a><\/h3><i>If you like the things you've read here please consider subscribing to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreon<\/a> or my <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ko-fi<\/a>. <\/br><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon subscribers<\/a> get not just early access to content and also the occasional gift, but also my eternal gratitude. Which I'm not sure is very useful, but is certainly very real.<\/br><\/br>(<a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/davidnguy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ko-fi contributors<\/a> probably only get the gratitude I'm afraid, but please get in touch if you want more). <\/br><\/br>Thank you!<\/i><\/br><\/br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How much is that?&#8221; &#8220;A pound.&#8221; &#8220;How much is that?&#8221; &#8220;A pound.&#8221; &#8220;How much is that?&#8221; &#8220;A pound. Everything&#8217;s a pound,&#8221; Simon said, simultaneously pointing to the sign that said, &#8220;Everything \u00a31&#8221;. &#8220;Oh,&#8221; said Claire. She opened up her palm a fraction and counted out her coins again. &#8220;Urgh. Wait, how much is that?&#8221; &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[1463,231,1464,1209],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-town","tag-markets","tag-pounds","tag-stalls","tag-tales-from-the-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}