{"id":5661,"date":"2012-11-01T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2012-11-01T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T23:19:12","slug":"burger-king-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"Burger King Is Gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on my way to Meijer (regional grocery chain), I passed by the Lowell Burger King.\u00a0 I noticed that their street sign was missing but I assumed that it was just wind damage.\u00a0 However, on a second take, I could see that all of the signs were missing and that the building was dark.\u00a0 The Lowell Burger King is gone!<\/p>\n<p>In a way, I am not surprised.\u00a0\u00a0 Their drive through service has been terrible lately, a reflection of bad management of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>And, I think that they made a bad decision a few years back when they decided to remove their indoor playground.\u00a0 When that happened, that playground crowd took their business to the McDonalds playground just down the road.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I am going to miss the Lowell Burger King.\u00a0 I guess I will have to get a Whopper in Grand Rapids when I get my car washed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on my way to Meijer (regional grocery chain), I passed by the Lowell Burger King.\u00a0 I noticed that their street sign was missing but I assumed that it was just wind damage.\u00a0 However, on a second take, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}