{"id":1775,"date":"2011-03-27T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2011-03-27T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:53:38","slug":"nbus-pub-crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"nbus Pub Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, we decided to drop out on a public transport pub crawl, and try to bag a few more entries for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\">PubBlog<\/a>. We started in Walsall, and then decided to introduce a little randomness: we headed for the Cenotaph, away from the main bus station, and saw what was about.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was a 334, out along Wednesbury Rd. We realised that we&#8217;d never been in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=486\">The Globe<\/a>, so we dropped in. Back out, a short wait saw us on another, so onwards to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?category_name=darlaston\">Darlaston<\/a>. The bus karma was still working OK later, when after a short walk, we travelled on to Bilston, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=264\">Old White Rose<\/a>. At this point, our karma ran out: a bus to Sedgley and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/14\/14376\/Beacon_Hotel\/Dudley\">Beacon Hotel<\/a>, but though the bus passed by it, it was closing. We thought we&#8217;d have a walk to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/29\/29674\/Summer_House\/Dudley\">The Summer House<\/a>, but that was also shut. After the walk, we decided to cut our losses: A walk back inside the West Midlands, a bus to Wolverhampton, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=262\">Great Western<\/a>. Refreshed, we caught the very useful <a href=\"http:\/\/nxbus.co.uk\/routes\/west-midlands\/B908\/\">908<\/a> to Wednesfield, a swift couple in the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=212\">Pyle Cock<\/a>, before the 908 proved itself less useful by terminating at Bloxwich, and the following Walsall-bound one not arriving. Giving up, we retired to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=135\">The Bell<\/a>, and ordered a taxi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, we decided to drop out on a public transport pub crawl, and try to bag a few more entries for PubBlog. We started in Walsall, and then decided to introduce a little randomness: we headed for the Cenotaph, away from the main bus station, and saw what was about. The answer was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">nbus Pub Crawl<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-public-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}