{"id":449,"date":"2009-06-27T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-06-28T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T05:03:59","slug":"golden-china-245-bush-river-road-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Golden China, 245 Bush River Road: June 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china006_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china001_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china002_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china004_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/06\/golden_china008_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I believe I only ate at <i>Golden China<\/i> once, probably in the 1970s, but it was a favorite of my mother's and I know she and my father went there a number of times over the years.<\/p>\n<p>I don't recall much about the restaurant itself -- I believe it impressed me as a perfectly OK Chinese place, but Chinese food is not really something I care for, so I can't say much.  I <i>do<\/i> remember its long running radio commercial which featured a man and a woman trying to decide where to eat, and went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMan:  I could really use some good Chinese food!<\/p>\n<p>Woman: Golden China!<\/p>\n<p>Man: Suuuure.  I'll hop on a plane right now...<\/p>\n<p>Woman:  Not \"go-to-China\" Silly, \"Gol-den China\" in the Boozer Shopping Center!<\/p>\n<p>Man: Oh yeah!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see from the pictures, the building is now an Indian restaurant (with Chinese decor..) which opened last week (25 June 2009).  On the one hand, I'm happy because I like Indian food on the other hand I'm sorry to see a longtime Columbia landmark go, even if I didn't want to eat there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe I only ate at Golden China once, probably in the 1970s, but it was a favorite of my mother's and I know she and my father went there a number of times over the years. I don't recall much about the restaurant itself -- I believe it impressed me as a perfectly OK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}