{"id":5304,"date":"2012-03-02T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:10:39","slug":"educational-wonderland-205-e-columbia-avenue-lexington-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"Educational Wonderland, 205-E Columbia Avenue (Lexington): 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1270638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1270638_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1270639.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1270639_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lexington location of <a href=\"http:\/\/edumart.com\/educationalwonderland\/\">Educational Wonderland<\/a> was on Columbia Avenue right next to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5262\">Mi Pueblito \/ Mi Casa<\/a>.  The way the storefront looks almost makes me think it was a theater at one time, but I don't see anything resembling a ticket-window.  This location is still listed in the new (March 2012) phonebook, so I'm assuming that it closed in 2011 (sometime before November, when these pictures were taken).<\/p>\n<p><i>Educational Wonderland<\/i> seems to be a school supply operation that caters mainly to the homeschool market and is now headquartered at <i>Boozer Shopping Center<\/i>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/edumart.com\/educationalwonderland\/indexold.html\">According to this old index to their site<\/a>, in addition to the Lexington location, they also had a Dentsville location at 2400 Decker Boulevard, the site of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1310\">the original WXRY radio station<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lexington location of Educational Wonderland was on Columbia Avenue right next to Mi Pueblito \/ Mi Casa. The way the storefront looks almost makes me think it was a theater at one time, but I don't see anything resembling a ticket-window. This location is still listed in the new (March 2012) phonebook, so I'm [&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":[798,807,389,436,4],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-columbia-avenue","tag-education","tag-lexington","tag-school","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","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=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}