{"id":25670,"date":"2026-07-16T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25670"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:55:20","slug":"mardel-christian-education-2305-augusta-road-suite-a-late-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25670","title":{"rendered":"Mardel Christian &#038; Education, 2305 Augusta Road Suite A: Late June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110728.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110728_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110728_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110728_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110729.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110729_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110729_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110729_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110730.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110730_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110730_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110730_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110731.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110731_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110731_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110731_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110732.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2110732_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2110732_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2110732_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The State<\/i> calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardel.com\/\">Mardel<\/a> a \"faith-based bookstore and gift shop\", and a little googling reveals the fact that it is sort of affiliated with <i>Hobby Lobby<\/i>, currently being owned by the same family.  Beyond that, I know very little, and the article is not particularly informative, other than yielding the information that the store had been here since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article316265403.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James R)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2305A+Augusta+Rd,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State calls Mardel a \"faith-based bookstore and gift shop\", and a little googling reveals the fact that it is sort of affiliated with Hobby Lobby, currently being owned by the same family. Beyond that, I know very little, and the article is not particularly informative, other than yielding the information that the store had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[4442,249,3150,26,2764,57],"class_list":["post-25670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2305-augusta-road","tag-augusta-road","tag-bibles","tag-books","tag-religious","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25670","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=25670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25673,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25670\/revisions\/25673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}