{"id":1110,"date":"2016-02-13T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2019-01-04T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:40:17","slug":"tennessee-tiki-history-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2016\/02\/13\/tennessee-tiki-history-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Tiki History Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/tntiki\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2016\/02\/13\/tennessee-tiki-history-page\/tntikibutton\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tntikibutton.jpg?fit=500%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,258\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tntikibutton\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tntikibutton.jpg?fit=500%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1112\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tntikibutton.jpg?resize=500%2C258\" alt=\"tntikibutton\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started this page years ago and forgot about it. Just started fleshing it out further and published it this morning. A work in progress, but a start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/tntiki\/\">Tennessee Tiki History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this page years ago and forgot about it. Just started fleshing it out further and published it this morning. A work in progress, but a start. Tennessee Tiki <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2016\/02\/13\/tennessee-tiki-history-page\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,547,11,539,540,541],"tags":[509,707,229,233,245,273,291,706,705],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knoxville","category-places","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-chattanooga","tag-dinkler","tag-luau","tag-mahi-mahi","tag-memphis","tag-nashville","tag-omni-hut","tag-surf-rider","tag-tiki-tennessee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tntikibutton.jpg?fit=500%2C258&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-hU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/11\/20\/uncovering-tennessee-tiki-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1110,"position":0},"title":"Uncovering Tennessee Tiki History","author":"Swanky","date":"November 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"When Basement Kahuna visited last weekend, he handed me a postcard for Dobb's House Luau, with locations in Memphis and Atlanta. 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