{"id":2345,"date":"2013-06-23T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2022-11-01T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T22:05:00","slug":"wolverhampton-drinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton Drinkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social encounter with friends saw us making the trip to Wolverhampton yesterday. We elected to avoid the 529 Chav Express, and after a short hop on the 10, caught the <a href=\"http:\/\/nxbus.co.uk\/routes\/west-midlands\/B089w\/?timetable[day]=&#038;tab=#service_timetable_tab\">89<\/a> from Shelfield, the slower, but less unpleasant option. We bought nbus tickets, as we&#8217;ve been caught out by non-NXWM buses before now. The West Midlands is badly in need of either online ticket sales, debit card ticket machines, or an Oystercard equivalent: finding \u00a38.40 in change is a struggle, as is feeding it into the ticket machine.<\/p>\n<p>After a false start trying to find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=807\">Lych Gate Tavern<\/a>, we discovered it right in front of us, and enjoyed a few pints in pleasant company, then went off to old favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=661\">The Posada<\/a>, before curry at the very pleasant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.uk\/Restaurant_Review-g190762-d2608582-Reviews-Dilshad-Wolverhampton_West_Midlands_England.html\">Dilshad<\/a>. The journey home did involve the 529, as the 89 goes from $deity-knows-where, but things were quiet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social encounter with friends saw us making the trip to Wolverhampton yesterday. We elected to avoid the 529 Chav Express, and after a short hop on the 10, caught the 89 from Shelfield, the slower, but less unpleasant option. We bought nbus tickets, as we&#8217;ve been caught out by non-NXWM buses before now. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wolverhampton Drinkies<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}