{"id":1528,"date":"2009-05-03T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2009-05-03T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T18:24:27","slug":"docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"Doc&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1526\" title=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-i\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-i-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-i\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-i-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-i.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mary Clare had her first Ruth&#8217;s hot dog this weekend, and as you can tell from the photo above, she thoroughly enjoyed it!\u00a0 If you know Hartsville, you know Ruth&#8217;s Drive-In, or Doc&#8217;s, as most Hartsvillians would say.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing fancy.\u00a0 Just hot dogs and hamburgers and many familiar faces.\u00a0 It has been around as long as I can remember.\u00a0 As Mel and I sat in the booth snapping photos, several patrons said they remember seeing the two of us at her age eating Doc&#8217;s dogs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-ii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1527\" title=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-ii\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-ii-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-ii\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-ii-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-ii.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mary Clare ate her entire hot dog with chili.\u00a0 McCanless ate two!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-iii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1529\" title=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-iii\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-iii-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"first-ruths-hot-dog-iii\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-iii-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/first-ruths-hot-dog-iii.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ruths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1530\" title=\"ruths\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ruths-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ruths\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ruths-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ruths.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the Mel&#8217;s Special in the photo below.\u00a0 (One of my hubby&#8217;s creations when he was on the Atkin&#8217;s Diet.)\u00a0 Ruth&#8217;s now has several signs advertising it, complete with a paper bow tie attached!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melpennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rdi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-273 aligncenter\" title=\"rdi1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melpennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rdi1-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"rdi1\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mel even blogged about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melpennington.com\/?p=272\">melpennington.com<\/a> back in February.\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;Living in a town of 7,000 means that celebrity status comes in really unique ways.\u00a0 Mine came last week via Ruth\u2019s Drive In and a very special culinary delight&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Clare had her first Ruth&#8217;s hot dog this weekend, and as you can tell from the photo above, she thoroughly enjoyed 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