{"id":17816,"date":"2020-09-22T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17816"},"modified":"2021-03-09T23:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T04:22:19","slug":"maurices-piggy-park-2450-augusta-road-summer-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17816","title":{"rendered":"Maurice's Piggy Park,  2450 Augusta Road: Summer 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660678.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660678_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660678_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660678_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660674.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660674_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660674_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660674_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660675.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660675_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660675_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660675_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660676_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660676_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660676_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660677.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/09\/p1660677_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1660677_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1660677_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the best of my memory, I've only eaten at a <i>Maurice's Piggy Park<\/i> once, last year at the Charleston Highway location.  I thought it was fine, but the chain seems to have hit a rough patch in the last few years with several locations closing.  COVID-19 can't have helped, but I don't know if it were the deciding factor here.<\/p>\n<p>This one is on US-1 in West Columbia to the east of the I-26 interchange and across from the <i>Wal-Mart<\/i>.  I see from google maps that it is next to a <i>Ruby Tuesday<\/i> I had forgotten about, and which I did not check to see if it were open.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Lone Wolf)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9 March 2021<\/b> -- Now a <i>Take 5<\/i> quick oil change operation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/03\/p1690633.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/03\/p1690633_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690633_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690633_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/03\/p1690650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/03\/p1690650_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690650_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690650_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2450+Augusta+Rd,+West+Columbia,+SC\/\" 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>To the best of my memory, I've only eaten at a Maurice's Piggy Park once, last year at the Charleston Highway location. I thought it was fine, but the chain seems to have hit a rough patch in the last few years with several locations closing. COVID-19 can't have helped, but I don't know if [&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":[3102,249,38,3103,3,286,57],"class_list":["post-17816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2450-augusta-road","tag-augusta-road","tag-barbecue","tag-maurices-piggy-park","tag-restaurants","tag-us-1","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816","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=17816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}