{"id":232770,"date":"2010-01-26T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:12:58","slug":"old-spaghetti-factory-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232770","title":{"rendered":"Old Spaghetti Factory closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=UTF8&#38;hq=&#38;hnear=Atlanta,+Fulton,+Georgia&#38;layer=c&#38;cbll=33.772589,-84.379268&#38;panoid=bX0z6zyHm7qSSNCoMp4kfw&#38;cbp=13,176.79,,0,2.71&#38;ll=33.772717,-84.379045&#38;spn=0,359.99397&#38;z=17&#38;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a>The Midtown mainstay &#8212; which has fed families heaping plates of pasta in that antique-y, Tiffany-lampshade style that was so in vogue in the 1970&#8217;s and 1980&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8212; finally gave up the ghost on Sunday and served its last supper. The restaurant had been in business for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>I never did visit the one in Atlanta, but hit up the Denver branch more often than I care to admit. Our children were in a daycare center next door, and on more than a few occasions we&#8217;d find ourselves rushing in at 6 p.m., scooping up the kidzos, turning to another strung-out parent and proposing: &#8220;Spaghetti Factory?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even remember what the food was like. I do remember that it arrived lickety split and included a salad, drink and ice cream dessert for a small fixed price.<\/p>\n<p>My former AJC colleague Maria Saporta has <a href=\"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/blog\/?p=3004\">a sweet essay <\/a>about the restaurant on her blog, the <a href=\"http:\/\/saportareport.com\/\">Saporta Report<\/a>. Yes, she actually did eat in the streetcar booth once.<\/p>\n<p>Any Atlanta parents out there have stories &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Larger MapThe Midtown mainstay &#8212; which has fed families heaping plates of pasta in that antique-y, Tiffany-lampshade style that was so in vogue in the 1970&#8217;s and 1980&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8212; finally gave up the ghost on Sunday and served its last supper. The restaurant had been in business for over 20 years. I never did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}