{"id":6336,"date":"2012-08-21T00:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T05:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2024-02-23T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:12:40","slug":"bojangles-2509-forest-drive-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"Bojangles, 2509 Forest Drive: July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110044.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110044_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110044_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110044_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110045.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110045_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110045_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110045_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110047_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110047_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110047_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110048.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110048_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110048_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110048_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110049.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110049_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110049_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110049_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110051_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110051_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110051_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110052.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110052_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110052_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110052_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110053.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110053_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110053_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110053_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110054_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110054_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110054_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110055_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110055_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110055_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110056.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110056_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110056_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110056_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110057.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110057_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110057_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110057_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110058.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/08\/p1110058_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110058_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110058_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI knew a man Bojangles and<br \/>\nHe'd dance for you..\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But not apparently make chicken anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I've had biscuits at a <i>Bojangles's<\/i> drive-through a few times in the unhappy event of being up that early, and they were pretty good.  I can't speak to the chain's mainstay though, as I'm definitely not a chicken person (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danoday.com\/chickenman\/\">some are..<\/a>), but the store on Two Notch at O'Neil Court seems to get pretty good traffic.  Perhaps the nearby <i>Church's Chicken<\/i> at 2436 Taylor was a factor here.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 September 2014<\/b> -- As mentioned by commenter Andrew, this is now an Asian BBQ place:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/09\/p1180348.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/09\/p1180348_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1180348_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1180348_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Matt)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 February 2024<\/b> -- This spot is now occupied by a <i>Starbucks<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730229_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730229_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730229_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2509+Forest+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew a man Bojangles and He'd dance for you.. But not apparently make chicken anymore. I've had biscuits at a Bojangles's drive-through a few times in the unhappy event of being up that early, and they were pretty good. I can't speak to the chain's mainstay though, as I'm definitely not a chicken person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1771,393,2991,499,96,3],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2509-forest-drive","tag-biscuits","tag-bojangles","tag-chicken","tag-forest-drive","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}