{"id":20479,"date":"2010-09-17T07:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=20479"},"modified":"2010-09-17T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:09:55","slug":"farrells-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20479","title":{"rendered":"Farrell&#8217;s comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrellsusa.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FarrellsPlacemat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before Chuck E. Cheese existed, Victorian-themed Farrell&#8217;s was THE place to go for ice cream and birthday parties. And they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrellsusa.com\" target=\"_blank\"> been making a comeback.<\/a> Starting in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>Always enjoyed the original menus printed on newsprint and featuring some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Dana_Gibson\"target=\"_blank\">Charles Dana Gibson<\/a> (1867-1944) characters (below) on its cover.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I ate at an original Farrell&#8217;s, the place was filled with gang members. And each one of them just happened to have a &#8216;birthday&#8217; (which resulted in free ice cream) every ten minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrellsusa.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/FarrellsMenu.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Farrell's comeback\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/20479\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Chuck E. Cheese existed, Victorian-themed Farrell&#8217;s was THE place to go for ice cream and birthday parties. And they&#8217;ve been making a comeback. Starting in Southern California. Always enjoyed the original menus printed on newsprint and featuring some Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) characters (below) on its cover. Last time I ate at an original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-culinary","category-design-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20479"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20485,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20479\/revisions\/20485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}