{"id":3332,"date":"2009-03-24T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2009-03-24T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T01:54:00","slug":"fast-food-joints-of-your-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3332","title":{"rendered":"Fast-Food Joints of Your Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times Daily Dish blog has <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/dailydish\/2009\/03\/closings-and-op.html\" target=\"_blank\">just reported the closing of the original Pioneer Chicken in Echo Park<\/a>. I remember Pioneer Chicken: there used to be one on Western that I would pass every time I drove to Wilshire Blvd Temple.  Thinking about that made me think of other possibly-defunct fast-food joints of my youth: the All-American Burgers in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/tradejournals\/article\/106982503.html\" target=\"_blank\">Westwood<\/a> and West Los Angeles (at Barrington and San Vicente); the Pup N\u2019 Taco on Western and Sixth (and the Piece O\u2019 Pizza across the street). <\/p>\n<p>Ah, the memories.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the indigestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times Daily Dish blog has just reported the closing of the original Pioneer Chicken in Echo Park. I remember Pioneer Chicken: there used to be one on Western that I would pass every time I drove to Wilshire Blvd Temple. Thinking about that made me think of other possibly-defunct fast-food joints of my <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3332\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,73],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-memories","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}