{"id":8672,"date":"2013-12-17T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2013-12-19T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:36:48","slug":"ping-pong-plaza-richland-mall-winter-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8672","title":{"rendered":"Ping Pong Plaza, Richland Mall: Winter 2013 (Open again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090694.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090694_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090694_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090694_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090695.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090695_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090695_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090695_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090696.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090696_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090696_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090696_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090697.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090697_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090697_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090697_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090698.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/12\/p1090698_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1090698_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1090698_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/04\/07\/2224576\/table-tennis-tiff-lands-in-civil.html\">kerfuffle<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/07\/19\/2360521\/table-tennis-club-looking-for.html\">Richland County<\/a>, the <i>Palmetto Table Tennis Club<\/i> ended up opening a ping pong plaza at <i>Richland Mall<\/i>, just behind the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7497\">TGI Friday's<\/a> and in-between the elevator column and the entrance of the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2243\">Blacklion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed a nice use for an empty space, and there were perhaps half a dozen or more ping pong tables there at one time.  When I went through in early December however, the plaza was completely bereft of tables (though all the posters and signage were still there).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 December 2013<\/b>:  Well, I don't know what was going on, but the tables are back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of a kerfuffle with Richland County, the Palmetto Table Tennis Club ended up opening a ping pong plaza at Richland Mall, just behind the old TGI Friday's and in-between the elevator column and the entrance of the old Blacklion. It seemed a nice use for an empty space, and there were perhaps [&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":[8,127,15,269,96,1285,30,1286,14],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-attraction","tag-beltline-boulevard","tag-entertainment","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-ping-pong","tag-richland-mall","tag-table-tennis","tag-venue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","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=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}