{"id":920,"date":"2012-02-12T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=920"},"modified":"2012-02-12T11:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T16:21:18","slug":"colley-avenue-ghent-norfolk-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Colley Avenue, Ghent, Norfolk, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 2007. Looks mostly the same, only the San Antonio Sam&#8217;s has been replaced with a Chipotle restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-921\" title=\"IMG_6337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6337.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6337-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Red Dog Saloon (previously The Maxx, and before that, Elliott&#8217;s). Home to one of the biggest hot dogs I&#8217;ve ever seen (I think it was a 16 oz dog!). Haven&#8217;t eaten there in a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>Across the street is Bella Pizzaria in Ghent. Love that the neon sign, this night, was malfunctioning, to tell you to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" title=\"IMG_6348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6348.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6348.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6348-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be A Ghent&#8221;. LOL. This place has the best garlic knots, and deluxe stromboli I&#8217;ve ever put in my face. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Finally, just a shot up the street:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6396.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-923\" title=\"IMG_6396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6396.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_6396-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The neighbourhood pharmacy (one that&#8217;s not a chain!), The Red Dog, (now defunct) San Antonio Sam&#8217;s, and the Naro Expanded Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Blue, who&#8217;s finds that it&#8217;s a lot easier to lose weight when you do the cooking yourself, but the scenery never changes. LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2007. Looks mostly the same, only the San Antonio Sam&#8217;s has been replaced with a Chipotle restaurant. The Red Dog Saloon (previously The Maxx, and before that, Elliott&#8217;s). Home to one of the biggest hot dogs I&#8217;ve ever seen (I think it was a 16 oz dog!). Haven&#8217;t eaten there in a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,407,288,409,210,408,206,406,384],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-211","tag-bella-pizzaria","tag-canon","tag-colley-avenue","tag-ghent","tag-naro","tag-norfolk","tag-red-dog","tag-xti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}