{"id":16624,"date":"2020-01-14T23:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16624"},"modified":"2020-01-14T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T04:10:05","slug":"the-mouse-trap-2711-middleburg-drive-13-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16624","title":{"rendered":"The Mouse Trap, 2711 MIddleburg Drive: 13 January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610799.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610799_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610799_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610799_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610800_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610800_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610800_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610801.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610801_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610801_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610801_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610802.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610802_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610802_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610802_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14526\">The Mouse Trap<\/a> in the spring of 2018 when they closed for remodeling, and again in early 2019 when I noted that they were open again.<\/p>\n<p>Now it seems that, unfortunately, that didn't last.  I did finally make it over there for lunch one day last year, and had a good burger.  Although it didn't impact my experience as I was the only one in the place, my impression was that they were a bit understaffed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Commenter <i>Mr. BO<\/i> sends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/The-Mousetrap-87559371977\">this link<\/a> to their 13 January Facebook page announcing the closing and mentions that <i>The Mouse Trap<\/i> took over from a place I was unaware of, <i>Picasso's<\/i> in the early 1980s.  (Or 1979 as the Facebook mentions).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/food-drink\/article239275013.html\">The State<\/a> has home more details.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Mr. BO)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2711+Middleburg+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted on The Mouse Trap in the spring of 2018 when they closed for remodeling, and again in early 2019 when I noted that they were open again. Now it seems that, unfortunately, that didn't last. I did finally make it over there for lunch one day last year, and had a good burger. [&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":[2581,2582,3],"class_list":["post-16624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2711-middleburg-drive","tag-middleburg-drive","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624","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=16624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}