{"id":7801,"date":"2018-07-10T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T06:02:50","slug":"mais-non-cest-cher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7801\/","title":{"rendered":"Mais non, c&#8217;est cher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I expect the principle purpose of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/travel\/story\/20180709-is-the-iconic-parisian-bistro-dying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this BBC piece<\/a> on the supposed decline of French bistros was to give the author a week in Paris on expenses. This bit made me hoot (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe bistro bar is a place of exchange, of conversation, a way of life,\u201d he explained at his own Paris bistro\u00a0Le Mesturet. \u201cYou can have a blue-collar worker elbow-to-elbow with a CEO and an office worker, sharing a coffee, a glass of wine, discussing everything and nothing. <strong>Anyone can afford bistro prices, erasing all socio-economic lines.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A beer in a Parisian bistro will set you back around 10 or 12 euros. If two of you have a cup of coffee and a pastry each you&#8217;ll not got much change from 20 euros. When I was last in Annecy I thought the waiter had made a mistake on my bill I was so used to astronomical prices in Paris. I get the impression the bistro owners might not be aware of the country outside Paris, and a BBC journalist over from London is the last person who&#8217;d be in any hurry to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I expect the principle purpose of this BBC piece on the supposed decline of French bistros was to give the author a week in Paris on expenses. This bit made me hoot (emphasis mine): \u201cThe bistro bar is a place &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7801\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}