{"id":380,"date":"2004-09-15T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=380"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"delhi_shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/delhi_shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi shopping hours extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3657786.stm\">extends its shopping hours<\/a> from 7 to 11pm to please its consumption-conscious citizens. But no government should restrict shopping hours in the first place. It smacks of the labor protectionism of France and Germany, where shopping hours are inconvenient.<\/p>\n\n<p>Separately, Delhi has a late-night crime problem:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>[T]here are others who think extending shopping hours in a city which remains extremely unsafe for women is an unwise move&#8230; &#8220;We have decided that women will work till 2000 hours and then the men will take over. We will not force our women to work late&#8230; But if we can make arrangements for them to travel late, and they want to work late, we&#8217;ll welcome it.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi extends its shopping hours from 7 to 11pm to please its consumption-conscious citizens. But no government should restrict shopping hours in the first place. It smacks of the labor protectionism of France and Germany, where shopping hours are inconvenient. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/delhi_shopping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}