{"id":10651,"date":"2015-11-04T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2015-11-04T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:05:25","slug":"rice-paddy-restaurant-732-front-street-georgetown-spring-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"Rice Paddy Restaurant, 732 Front Street (Georgetown): Spring 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260855.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260855_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260855_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260855_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260857.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260857_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260857_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260857_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260858.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260858_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260858_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260858_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260859.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260859_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260859_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260859_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260860_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260860_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260860_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260861.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260861_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260861_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260861_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260862.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260862_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260862_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260862_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260863.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260863_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260863_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260863_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260864.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260864_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260864_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260864_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260865.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260865_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260865_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260865_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260866.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260866_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260866_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260866_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260872.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260872_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260872_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260872_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260873.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260873_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260873_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260873_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260874.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260874_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260874_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260874_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260875.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/15\/11\/p1260875_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1260875_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1260875_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in downtown Georgetown a few weeks ago, having taken a refrigerator part to the very far edge of town and looking to eat al-fresco on Front Street.  I had a nice Italian lunch on the sidewalk and then decided to walk around for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I was very surprised to see the <i>Rice Paddy Restaurant<\/i> closed.  This old building, almost across the street from the burned out area of the Georgetown Harborwalk, has been a local fixture for as long as I can remember.  In the event, I can only recall eating there once, probably back in the late 1980s.  The memory is hazy, but I think it was quite good, but rather fancier than my usual spots.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricepaddyrestaurant.com\/\">web site<\/a> is still up, and still shows a 2014 award.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/rice-paddy-georgetown-2\">Yelp<\/a> page suggests that it must have closed in or before May 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in downtown Georgetown a few weeks ago, having taken a refrigerator part to the very far edge of town and looking to eat al-fresco on Front Street. I had a nice Italian lunch on the sidewalk and then decided to walk around for a few minutes. I was very surprised to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1745,1197,331,6,16,3],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-732-front-street","tag-front-street","tag-georgetown","tag-grand-strand","tag-out-of-area","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","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=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}