{"id":3051,"date":"2011-01-06T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2011-01-09T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:33:50","slug":"monkey-business-1800-augusta-highway-lexington-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Business, 1820 Augusta Highway (Lexington): 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190580.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190580_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190567.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190567_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190568_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190569_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190570_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9 Jan 2011<\/b> -- That certainly is a conveniently specific insurance regulation, isn't it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190571.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190571_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190572_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190575.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190575_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Monkey Business<\/i> was an indoor arcade\/amusement park off of US-1 in Lexington.  I know it was open at the start of 2009, but am not totally sure that it made it into 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The place was inside the largest part of a warehouse-like building (a Cheerleading school is in the smaller part), and had a number of different attractions.  There were bouncy castles, jumbo slides, video games, skee-ball, a small carrousel, a snack bar and private rooms for birthday parties.  I only went once, but my impression was that all the kids there were having a good time, and it appeared to be doing a good business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5887.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5887_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5888.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5888_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5890.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5890_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5891.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5891_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5896.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5896_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5897.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5897_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5904.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5904_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5910.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5910_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5918.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5918_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5919.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dcp_5919_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 8 Jan 2011<\/b>:  Here are some slide and monkey pictures from commenter uscnurse97 -- thanks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2810_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2812.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2812_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2814.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/dscf2814_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 9 Jan 2011 -- That certainly is a conveniently specific insurance regulation, isn't it? Monkey Business was an indoor arcade\/amusement park off of US-1 in Lexington. I know it was open at the start of 2009, but am not totally sure that it made it into 2010. The place was inside the largest part [&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":[25,8,465,13,466,389,286],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arcade","tag-attraction","tag-augusta-highway","tag-business","tag-fabrister-lane","tag-lexington","tag-us-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}