{"id":2443,"date":"2010-07-30T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T06:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2010-07-30T01:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T06:10:26","slug":"tumbleweeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"Tumbleweeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140166.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140166_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140167.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140167_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140168.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/07\/p1140168_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to <i>Sears<\/i> at Columbia Mall on Wednesday to look for something and decided to take the closing-cam and walk the mall afterwards.  There are so many vacant storefronts that the place almost feels like <i>Inlet Square Mall<\/i> now.  I thought about taking pictures, but then decided there was no point because I didn't even know what these places had been.  In high school, I probably went several times a week, but now it's once every six months or so.  Is the mall in trouble?  Let me put it to you this way -- the Dollar Store is gone, and there are kiosks selling flea-market type merchandise...<\/p>\n<p>I did take a few pictures, and I really like the first one.  It is almost an Edward Hopper-esque scene of isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Sears at Columbia Mall on Wednesday to look for something and decided to take the closing-cam and walk the mall afterwards. There are so many vacant storefronts that the place almost feels like Inlet Square Mall now. I thought about taking pictures, but then decided there was no point because I didn't [&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":[24,7,78,117,54],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-columbia-mall","tag-commentary","tag-dentsville","tag-parklane-road","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","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=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}