{"id":15801,"date":"2025-01-27T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2025-01-27T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:36:07","slug":"cedar-rapids-last-maid-rite-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/cedar-rapids-last-maid-rite-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Rapids&#8217; last Maid-Rite is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Westside Maid-Rite, Cedar Rapids&#8217; oldest restaurant in the same location (1935), closed Jan. 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/cedar-rapids-westside-maid-rite-closes\">I wrote about it on my Substack.<\/a> It was the feature image in the second\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iowawriters.substack.com\/p\/21-feast-bye-bye-maid-rite-music\">new &#8220;Flipside&#8221; story roundup<\/a> from the Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative that will come out on Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/cedar-rapids-westside-maid-rite-closes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15802\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_maidrite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_maidrite.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_maidrite-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/substack_maidrite-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westside Maid-Rite, Cedar Rapids&#8217; oldest restaurant in the same location (1935), closed Jan. 15. I wrote about it on my Substack. It was the feature image in the second\u00a0new &#8220;Flipside&#8221; story roundup from the Iowa Writers&#8217; Collaborative that will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/cedar-rapids-last-maid-rite-is-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15803,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}