{"id":1,"date":"2007-12-29T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2008-12-29T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:42:16","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's the deal:  This blog is (mostly) about businesses in Columbia, SC which have closed.<\/p>\n<p>How often have you gone to a favorite store or restaurant and found the doors locked and all the tables and chairs stacked against the back wall?  Did you wish there was a place to vent about it, say how you saw it coming, or give the inside scoop on what happened?  I'd like this to be that place.<\/p>\n<p>As I notice businesses that have closed, I'll post entries on them.  If I was a patron, I'll post a few thoughts, if I wasn't, I'll just note the passing.  I hope that you, should anyone actually find this blog, can fill in the details with your comments.<\/p>\n<p>In general, this blog will deal, as the title suggests, with Columbia SC.  However, I also spend a good deal of time on the Grand Strand, so I won't hesitate to mention closings there, if it strikes my fancy.  I also won't hesitate to make \"remember when?\" posts about places that closed years ago.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:  I have closed comments on this post because I have moved the text to a <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2\">\"page\", which will stay visible for the long term<\/a> rather than scrolling off.  Please leave any additional comments there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's the deal: This blog is (mostly) about businesses in Columbia, SC which have closed. How often have you gone to a favorite store or restaurant and found the doors locked and all the tables and chairs stacked against the back wall? Did you wish there was a place to vent about it, say how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}