{"id":1292,"date":"2015-12-15T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2015-12-15T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:56:32","slug":"revisits-the-watering-trough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Revisits: The Watering Trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A revisit of a revisit: Last post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=857\">here<\/a>, original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=169\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This gets another repost because it&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/business\/careers\/2015\/11\/25\/cheers-pub-group-punchs-1m-revamps-will-serve-up-50-jobs\/\">refurbed<\/a>. This did set off alarm bells- I was fearing a pubco makeover and associated loss of character,but my fears were unfounded. There&#8217;s been a bit of re-ulpholstery, some new chairs, and repainting and revarnishing, but the pub retains it&#8217;s character and soul- it&#8217; still the same Trough, just smartened up a bit. There&#8217;s still ale and rock music, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revisit of a revisit: Last post here, original here. This gets another repost because it&#8217;s been refurbed. This did set off alarm bells- I was fearing a pubco makeover and associated loss of character,but my fears were unfounded. There&#8217;s been a bit of re-ulpholstery, some new chairs, and repainting and revarnishing, but the pub &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisits: The Watering Trough<\/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":[3],"tags":[5,196],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}