{"id":9017,"date":"2016-04-12T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T08:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T08:19:52","slug":"sam-kee-cat-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/sam-kee-cat-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend a purr-fect afternoon reading with cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release your inner literati with 30 furry companions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Avery Tsui<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get away from busy city life for a day of reading with a cuddly companion. Sam Kee Bookstore in North Point has been around for 38 years, and it\u2019s also a shelter for more than 30 homeless cats.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9018 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"077\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/077.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cats are everywhere \u2013 napping on a stack of books or in a customer\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n<p>The books are nice too. Caroline Chan, the owner, recalls helping a customer find a 40-year-old copy of <em>Reader\u2019s Digest. <\/em>There are other historic books that you won\u2019t find in chain bookstores. Chan says many customers spend hours in the shop looking for the right one.<\/p>\n<p>Rent has been going up in many parts of Hong Kong, and Sam Kee is no exception. The rent in 2014 was double what it was before. Chan admits that Sam Kee is under financial pressure, but she will continue to run the bookstore as best she can. She says the value of sharing books and ideas is more important to her than being profitable.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to spend an afternoon with cats and books, visit Sam Kee at King\u2019s Centre basement 19, 193 King&#8217;s Rd, North Point.<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by Kate Kim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old bookstore in North Point is a home to decades-old books and more than 30 homeless cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1937,18],"tags":[105,142],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-140","category-vchoice","tag-animals","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}