{"id":3570,"date":"2011-04-22T23:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2011-04-22T23:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:28:59","slug":"german-gasthaus-2404-decker-park-road-mid-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"German Gasthaus, 2404 Decker Park Road: mid 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1210183.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1210183_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1210185.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1210185_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Decker Park Road connects Decker Boulevard with the unpaved Kneece Road (which itself connects Brookfield Road and O'Neil Court).<\/p>\n<p>There's not a whole lot on Decker Park: side access to the <i>Food Lion<\/i> plaza, a <i>U-Haul<\/i> self-storage operation, a small recording studio, and a hair salon.<\/p>\n<p>For many years however, this was the home of the <i>German Gasthaus<\/i> restaurant.  Aside from maybe <i>Mr. Dunderbanks<\/i> in the mall, this was the only German restaurant in Columbia that I knew of.  I'm afraid my only trip to Germany didn't lead me to seek out German food at home (we were working something like 19\/7 and all I recall is limp bacon, almost as if it had been boiled, at the hotel buffet), and I never made it here.  I believe the place burned down in the mid 2000s, and was never re-opened . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decker Park Road connects Decker Boulevard with the unpaved Kneece Road (which itself connects Brookfield Road and O'Neil Court). There's not a whole lot on Decker Park: side access to the Food Lion plaza, a U-Haul self-storage operation, a small recording studio, and a hair salon. For many years however, this was the home of [&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":[92,566,78,3],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-decker-park-road","tag-dentsville","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}