{"id":3608,"date":"2011-05-05T01:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2011-05-23T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T06:31:17","slug":"hot-rock-massages-120-sparkleberry-crossing-5-6-early-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rock Massages, 120 Sparkleberry Crossing Suites 5 &#038; 6: Early April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210077.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210077_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210078.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210078_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210074.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210074_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210075.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210075_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210076.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210076_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210678.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210678_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This upscale massage chain had several storefronts in Columbia which, as reported by commenter Jimmy, all went belly-up by early April.  This one is at the corner of Clemson Road & Sparkleberry lane, on the upper level of the same building which also housed <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=110\">Za's<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3215\">Cafe Corner Coffee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3227\">Vino 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I would guess these places are a casualty of the fact that massage (unless for an actual medical condition) is something of a luxury good, and is a hard to justify expense in a down economy.  On the other hand, there certainly are local massage studios that still seem to be doing well.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Jimmy)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 May 2011<\/b> -- Added night picture of lighted sign, which is still (so far) up and working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This upscale massage chain had several storefronts in Columbia which, as reported by commenter Jimmy, all went belly-up by early April. This one is at the corner of Clemson Road &#038; Sparkleberry lane, on the upper level of the same building which also housed Za's, Cafe Corner Coffee and Vino 100. I would guess these [&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":[13,136,229,65,134,349],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-clemson-road","tag-i-20","tag-massage","tag-sparkleberry-crossing","tag-sparkleberry-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","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=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}