{"id":998,"date":"2026-01-16T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:39:41","slug":"they-chose-the-coldest-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"They Chose the Coldest Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1755813\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Logan\u2019s Roadhouse was already reeling, its foundation cracked long before the world shut down. Years of financial missteps, a CEO under fire, and the weight of bankruptcy meant the pandemic didn\u2019t break the company\u2014it finished what had quietly begun. When crisis hit, leadership had a choice: fight for a future with the people who built it, or walk away and protect the balance sheet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1755813\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They chose the latter. Overnight, 261 locations went dark and 18,000 workers were cast adrift, learning through rumors and headlines that the place they\u2019d given years to no longer had room for them. Some turned to a hastily assembled foundation, but charity couldn\u2019t replace lost wages, canceled insurance, or shattered trust. In the end, the collapse of Logan\u2019s Roadhouse wasn\u2019t just a business failure. It was a verdict on whose lives corporations consider expendable when survival is on the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan\u2019s Roadhouse was already reeling, its foundation cracked long before the world shut down. Years of financial missteps, a CEO under fire, and the weight of bankruptcy meant the pandemic &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}