{"id":4515,"date":"2022-08-27T20:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T19:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T19:47:52","slug":"a-series-of-unfortunate-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4515","title":{"rendered":"A Series of Unfortunate Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Saturday, we had no specific thing we needed to do, and somehow, we both independently thought:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willenhall\">Willenhall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned to a friend by message:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p06ntqQwHrY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s not <strong>that<\/strong> mental an idea. Willenhall still has a good pub density, even if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=237\">one of the best<\/a> has now gone. It&#8217;s well served by bus, and not too far if NWWM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4475\">don&#8217;t manage to run a bus service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It started to go wrong when we missed a 10 in Walsall Wood. This isn&#8217;t a huge problem but it was a poor omen. Still, we made the next one, and found ourselves on a 529.<\/p>\n<p>Which is where the annoyances really started, with a young, but not that young, lady playing 3 second long excerpts from every shit song on her mobile, then conducting a loud speakerphone conversation, <strong>then<\/strong> watching some vacuous makeup video, while we all got to share in the audio of it all. I was polite, if not charming.<\/p>\n<p>Off the 529 and into the &#8216;spoons. We needed lunch, and it&#8217;s right by the stop.<\/p>\n<p>Kids running around. Someone smelt of piss. Lunch was shit, as was my beer (which wasn&#8217;t my first choice anyway). We left for another nearby pub and sat outside, with more speakerphone action, if not so bad. Onwards, and we visit a new, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2535\">unexceptional pub<\/a>&#8211; or at least, it&#8217;s been renamed and the last visit was c1991. No complaints here, except the lack of wine.<\/p>\n<p>Final disappointment of the day: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2532\">The County<\/a>, a pub I fondly remembered for its atmosphere and several real ales, but in the intervening years seems to have become just another run-down urban pub with football and mediocre beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Saturday, we had no specific thing we needed to do, and somehow, we both independently thought: Willenhall. As I mentioned to a friend by message: Now, it&#8217;s not that mental an idea. Willenhall still has a good pub density, even if one of the best has now gone. It&#8217;s well served by bus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=4515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/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":[4,21,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-public-transport","category-pubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}