{"id":1357,"date":"2016-03-19T20:07:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:18:12","slug":"revisit-final-visit-the-imperial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Revisit: (Final Visit?) The Imperial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=271\">Original post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sad visit on our way back home; The Imperial closed later this evening, with J D Wetherspoon citing it as a commercial decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Imperial has been there <a href=\"http:\/\/webwalsall.com\/local-history-centre\/?page_id=377\">since 1997 or so<\/a>, and I remember a bet with my other half that it would be there more than x years, (where x was either five or 10, we cannot recall). It lasted nearly 20 in the end, and despite it being just a &#8216;spoons, I will be sorry to see it go. handy for the bus station (especially as the toilets there are closed at night \ud83d\ude42 ), and a little quieter than the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=569\">St Matthew&#8217;s Hall<\/a>, it always seemed to be doing an OK trade to me. I just hope some new use can be found for the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post here A sad visit on our way back home; The Imperial closed later this evening, with J D Wetherspoon citing it as a commercial decision. The Imperial has been there since 1997 or so, and I remember a bet with my other half that it would be there more than x years, (where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisit: (Final Visit?) The Imperial<\/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":[82,3],"tags":[5,198,279,4,238,123,196],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisits","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-chain","tag-closed","tag-food","tag-revisits","tag-spoons","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}