{"id":260,"date":"2008-12-08T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=260"},"modified":"2008-12-08T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:21:16","slug":"constantines-knox-abbot-drive-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Constantine's, Knox Abbot Drive: 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/constantines09_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The building has the look of a <i>Mrs. Winner's<\/i> which was, I think, a mainly chicken restaurant chain that got in trouble in the 80s.  <i>Constantine's<\/i> was a Greek place, or at least that's the impression I always got driving by.  I never ate there because I had <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=105\">Zorba's on Decker<\/a> close by, and a sure thing \"best bread in Columbia\" at <i>Grecian Gardens<\/i> if I were on that side of town and in a Greek mood.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the odd hours posted here, I'm guessing that this place originally served dinner all week and gradually cut back.  I also have a very vague notion that they may have moved for a time to a much smaller building on Meeting Street in a parking lot behind the West Columbia <i>Eggroll Station<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The building has the look of a Mrs. Winner's which was, I think, a mainly chicken restaurant chain that got in trouble in the 80s. Constantine's was a Greek place, or at least that's the impression I always got driving by. I never ate there because I had Zorba's on Decker close by, and a [&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":[5,3],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}