{"id":12719,"date":"2013-06-26T01:48:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2013-06-26T01:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:48:29","slug":"pawn-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pawn-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1500 California Pawn Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pshcop.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pawn shops must be big business in California. With more than 1,500 listed in the yellow pages, it shouldn&#8217;t take you long to find one in your area, and from people say, they&#8217;re great places to shop for high-end items without paying retail.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never looked at a pawn shop for deals on jewelry, musical instruments and other such items, Les Gold, pawn broker\/shop owner who is featured on the TV show,<em> Hardcore Pawn<\/em>, offers tips on your first visit. \u00a0The third-generation pawnbroker say that his business is the barometer for the way the economy is running by observing the difference between the amount of customers pawning items versus those who are redeeming their previously pawned valuables. Up to \u00a090% of customers return to the pawn shop to reclaim merchandise<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/california-pawn-shops.html\"> ..see tips<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawn shops must be big business in California. With more than 1,500 listed in the yellow pages, it shouldn&#8217;t take you long to find one in your area, and from people say, they&#8217;re great places to shop for high-end items without paying retail. If you&#8217;ve never looked at a pawn shop for deals on jewelry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}