{"id":5192,"date":"2026-09-18T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/oconnells-closing-is-a-warning-for-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:45:03","slug":"oconnells-closing-is-a-warning-for-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/oconnells-closing-is-a-warning-for-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Connell\u2019s Closing Is A Warning For St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) When a locally owned restaurant closes, customers often show up in its final weeks, stand in long lines, and talk about how much they\u2019ll miss a place they assumed would always be there. The planned closing of O\u2019Connell\u2019s Pub should remind St. Louis diners not to wait until the closing announcement. If residents want locally owned restaurants to remain part of their communities, those businesses need customers\u2014not simply good memories, positive reviews, and expressions of support after they announce they are closing. That doesn\u2019t mean consumers should spend money they don\u2019t<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisrestaurantreview.com\/oconnells-closing-warning-for-st-louis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 18, 2026 (StLouisRestaurantReview) When a locally owned restaurant closes, customers often show up in its final weeks, stand in long lines, and talk about how much they\u2019ll miss a place they assumed would always be&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}