{"id":21723,"date":"2014-07-01T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=21723"},"modified":"2014-07-01T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:29:25","slug":"n-c-s-first-dunkin-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/ocp\/2014\/07\/01\/n-c-s-first-dunkin-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"N.C.&#8217;s First Dunkin&#8217; Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first North Carolina Dunkin&#8217; Donuts store closed Monday after more than 46 years. Groover and Joyce Blitch operated the store since it opened in 1986. Friends and customers streamed in all morning to say good-bye, wish the couple well and to buy their last doughnut there.<\/p>\n<p>The city has been trying to buy the land for the planned future of the <a href=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/transit\/2012\/03\/28\/capital-boulevard-corridor-could-get-a-makeover\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capitol Boulevard<\/a> design; the stream that runs outside the shop will be part of the plan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21724\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dunkin6192-771x511.jpg\" alt=\"dunkin6192\" width=\"771\" height=\"511\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dunkin6192-771x511.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dunkin6192-336x223.jpg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dunkin6192.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Karen Tam \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Groover and Joyce Blitch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21726\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6238-771x447.jpg\" alt=\"Dunkin6238\" width=\"771\" height=\"447\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6238-771x447.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6238-336x194.jpg 336w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6238.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Karen Tam \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21725\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 651px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6200.jpg\" alt=\"Dunkin6200\" width=\"651\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6200.jpg 651w, https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dunkin6200-336x578.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Karen Tam \/ Raleigh Public Record<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Groover Blitch, a former Marine, hung an American flag inside the store.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first North Carolina Dunkin&#8217; Donuts store closed Monday after 46 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24026,"featured_media":21726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}