{"id":176,"date":"2008-09-16T17:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:44:11","slug":"the-italian-pie-village-at-sandhill-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"The Italian Pie, 110 Forum Drive #7 (Village at Sandhill): 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie09_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie11_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie12_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie13_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie14_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/ipie15_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like <i>The Italian Pie<\/i>, though I have only eaten at their Forest Drive location.  My only problem with <i>that<\/i> place is their initial violation of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=28\">Ted's Rules for Restaurants #1\"<\/a>: Honor Your Posted Hours.<\/p>\n<p>For a while they were open until 10:30pm Thurs-Sat and I got there at 9:30 to hear the dreaded: \"Well, we weren't very busy, so we closed the kitchen\".  After that, they took down their posted closing hours, and I can generally only get there for lunch now.<\/p>\n<p>I don't know much about the Sandhill location.  Since Forest Drive is so much closer, I never made it out there for a meal.  I did read in <i>The State<\/i> a while back that they were reducing their open hours, is <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=106\">Signs Your Favorite Restaurant is About to Close #1<\/a>.  Apparently after that, they reduced their open hours down to zero.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the salt shakers still on the tables, the end probably came fairly quickly.  It looks like a French-ish (I add the \"ish\" because of the \"Pepe Le Pew\" spellings on their sign) place is to open there soon.  Perhaps they can open before the new <i>Panera Bread<\/i>, which seems to have been in the offing for a lot longer than necessary now.  Maybe they're looking for salt shakers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like The Italian Pie, though I have only eaten at their Forest Drive location. My only problem with that place is their initial violation of Ted's Rules for Restaurants #1\": Honor Your Posted Hours. For a while they were open until 10:30pm Thurs-Sat and I got there at 9:30 to hear the dreaded: \"Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[136,168,27,3,36],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-clemson-road","tag-forum-drive","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}