{"id":3078,"date":"2020-03-09T12:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:53:30","slug":"time-catches-up-to-halifax-tobacco-shop-after-150-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"Time Catches up to Halifax Tobacco Shop After 150 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by:\u00a0<span class=\"authorText\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/emma-davie-1.4290515\">Emma Davie<\/a><\/span><span class=\"bullet\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u00a0<\/span>CBC News<span class=\"bullet\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bullet\">\u00a0<\/span>Posted: Feb 09, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After 150 years of selling tobacco in Halifax, Sievert&#8217;s Ltd. on Barrington Street will close its doors later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The business began shutting down in the fall, but the owner says they will be open for about a month longer as they continue to sell off the rest of their stock.<\/p>\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-12002887\"><\/section>\n<p>&#8220;The\u00a0way things are nowadays when it comes to tobacco and stuff like that, there&#8217;s a lot of negativity about it when it comes to people smoking and the vaping and all the different things happening with [cannabis],&#8221; said Craig Sievert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things in this business aren&#8217;t exactly going up, so you have to move along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sievert&#8217;s great-grandfather started the business in 1870. The store has been at its current location on Barrington Street since 1906.<\/p>\n<p>Sievert says he&#8217;s the fourth generation to run the family business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/halifax-tobacco-store-stieverts-closing-150-years-1.5457202\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by:\u00a0Emma Davie\u00a0 \u00a0CBC News\u00a0 \u00a0Posted: Feb 09, 2020 &nbsp; After 150 years of selling tobacco in Halifax, Sievert&#8217;s Ltd. on Barrington Street will close its doors later this year. The business began shutting down in the fall, but the owner says they will be open for about a month longer as they continue to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}