{"id":7463,"date":"2013-03-10T23:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2013-03-10T23:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:45:16","slug":"big-thursday-5135-sunset-boulevard-28-february-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"Big Thursday, 5135 Sunset Boulevard: 28 February 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160941.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160941_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160941_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160941_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160942_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160942_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160942_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160946.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160946_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160946_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160946_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160948.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160948_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160948_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160948_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160949.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1160949_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160949_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160949_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name <i>Big Thursday<\/i> refers back to an old Columbia tradition of hosting the Carolina\/Clemson game at USC on a Fall Thursday.  It was before my time, but apparently was quite the thing and schools would even get the day off.  (We used to get a day off for the State Fair too -- go figure).  I'm not sure if it dated back to my Grandfather's time, but Thursday or not I know he swore he would never give Clemson one red dime because they made him come to Columbia and sleep in a tent on game day when he was there.  (Clemson was basically a military school at the time, I believe).<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder if naming a store after something that fewer and fewer people can actually remember is a good idea, and in the event, perhaps not as this USC and Clemson memorabilia chain closed shop at the end of last month.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter TahoeChic)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name Big Thursday refers back to an old Columbia tradition of hosting the Carolina\/Clemson game at USC on a Fall Thursday. It was before my time, but apparently was quite the thing and schools would even get the day off. (We used to get a day off for the State Fair too -- go [&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":[1049,389,4,374,21],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-clemson","tag-lexington","tag-stores","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}