{"id":26,"date":"2008-02-04T18:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-02-05T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:20:51","slug":"rising-high-harden-street-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Rising High, Harden Street: 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/02\/rising_high.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/02\/rising_high_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In principle, I should like Rising High, since it is sort of a local version of The Atlanta Bread Company or Panera Bread, and I like both of those operations (in general, but see my <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5\">post<\/a> about ABC at Sandhills..).  In practice I never really found the sandwich or other food item that could make this place a regular stop for me.  The sandwich which came closest, The <i>Sundrenched<\/i> was a bit too artichokey.  The deck was a nice idea in principle, but I found that when it wasn't too hot, or too cold to use it, I tended to get panhandled by passers-by.<\/p>\n<p>I'm unsure if the building was built for Rising High.  I remember The Villa being in about that location before it closed.  At any rate, I think a combination of things did in this location.  First and foremost was the interminable Harden Street revamping which also cost us The Parthenon.  I believe that, combined with the fact that the chain was at the same time trying to establish a new location on Beltline Blvd (where Shane's Ribs now is) just put too much stress on the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The building now hosts The Congaree Grill, an operation I have yet to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In principle, I should like Rising High, since it is sort of a local version of The Atlanta Bread Company or Panera Bread, and I like both of those operations (in general, but see my post about ABC at Sandhills..). In practice I never really found the sandwich or other food item that could make [&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":[3],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}