{"id":5900,"date":"2012-05-31T00:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2012-05-31T00:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T05:27:36","slug":"fever-1202-main-street-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5900","title":{"rendered":"Fever, 1202 Main Street: April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060569_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060569_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060569_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060570_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060570_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060570_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060571.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060571_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060571_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060571_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060572_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060572_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060572_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060574.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060574_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060574_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060574_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060576.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060576_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060576_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060576_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060578.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060578_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060578_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060578_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060579.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060579_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060579_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060579_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060582.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060582_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060582_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060582_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060584.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/05\/p1060584_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060584_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060584_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little space on Main across from the Capitol and next to WOLO has been a number of restaurants, for instance <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=139\">the Cat &amp; Cleaver and The Capitol Cafe<\/a> (not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=112\">the Capitol Restaurant<\/a>) -- Then it was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1294\">*almost* a Dunkin' Donuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After <i>Dunkin'<\/i> fell through, the place was vacant for a while then <i>Fever<\/i> started a (protracted) setup process, finally opened and rapidly went under.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that though the place sounded to be something I might like, I purposely did not check it out as I strongly felt that the owner's role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-times.com\/index.php?cat=1992912064227409&ShowArticle_ID=11010604112980585\">Taco Wars<\/a> was unhelpful.  Outcompeting someone -- fine.  Trying to use City Hall to shut down a competitor -- not so much.  I wonder if other people sharing that sentiment was an element in <i>Fever's<\/i> demise, or the fact that the last two restaurants there closed as well means that the location is just not that good.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Payne, and to tonkatoy for the \"Taco Wars\" link during the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4935#comment-977730\">Have Your Say discussion<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little space on Main across from the Capitol and next to WOLO has been a number of restaurants, for instance the Cat &amp; Cleaver and The Capitol Cafe (not to be confused with the Capitol Restaurant) -- Then it was *almost* a Dunkin' Donuts. After Dunkin' fell through, the place was vacant for a [&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":[67,20,83,3,898],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gervais-street","tag-main-street","tag-mexican","tag-restaurants","tag-taco-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900","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=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}