{"id":6983,"date":"2012-11-29T01:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2012-11-29T01:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T06:42:48","slug":"kenny-rogers-roasters-151-harbison-boulevard-mid-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6983","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Rogers Roasters, 151 Harbison Boulevard: mid 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130505.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130505_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130505_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130505_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130506.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/11\/p1130506_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1130506_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1130506_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never really associated Kenny Rogers with food (well, except maybe \"four hungry children &amp; a crop in the field\"..), but according to my sister, the chicken at his <i>Kenny Rogers Roasters<\/i> restaurants was excellent.  And, in fact, from what I can tell from this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenny_Rogers_Roasters\">Wikipedia article<\/a>, there was a <i>Seinfeld<\/i> episode based around that fact.<\/p>\n<p>The article is quite vague about what happened to the chain.  At one point they were doing well, having just bought out a troublesome competitor and gone public with over 1000 restaurants, and a few sentences later they are in <i>Chapter 11<\/i>.  Today, apparently almost all the stores are in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapter 11 came in 1998, but the Harbison store was already a <i>Bojangles<\/i> at that point, so I'm just leaving the closing date as mid 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>You've got to know when to fold 'em..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never really associated Kenny Rogers with food (well, except maybe \"four hungry children &amp; a crop in the field\"..), but according to my sister, the chicken at his Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurants was excellent. And, in fact, from what I can tell from this Wikipedia article, there was a Seinfeld episode based around that [&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":[499,182,198,3],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chicken","tag-harbison-boulevard","tag-irmo","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}