{"id":1024,"date":"2015-02-06T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2015-02-08T21:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T21:38:11","slug":"the-bloxwich-showman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"The Bloxwich Showman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloxwich:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m14!1m8!1m3!1d2422.5027680982116!2d-2.0041059999999997!3d52.614757999999995!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x48709f44cb8dbdd1%3A0x12c1e0f75a7df0d8!2sBloxwich+Showman!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1423350253278\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new &#8216;spoons, as has been rumoured for a while, and again, it&#8217;s an old cinema. People my age or older will remember it as Flix nightclub, and those much older might remember <a href=\"http:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/35869\">The Grosvenor<\/a>, operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pat_Collins_%28showman%29\">Pat Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, it&#8217;s standard &#8216;spoons, but feels much, much smaller than my teenage memory of the Flix nightclub. As it&#8217;s been open less than a fortnight, it was still very busy; we found it difficult to get a seat. Food, beer, and staff all fine, and completely as expected, but it has to be a good thing to generate this amount of business in Bloxwich; maybe the much-quoted Wetherspoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=1997\">halo effect<\/a> will happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloxwich: A new &#8216;spoons, as has been rumoured for a while, and again, it&#8217;s an old cinema. People my age or older will remember it as Flix nightclub, and those much older might remember The Grosvenor, operated by Pat Collins. Inside, it&#8217;s standard &#8216;spoons, but feels much, much smaller than my teenage memory of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bloxwich Showman<\/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":[21,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloxwich","category-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}