{"id":2103,"date":"2019-09-12T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2019-09-15T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T21:41:47","slug":"revisits-the-watering-trough-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Revisits: The Watering Trough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1292\">Revisit of a revisit of a revisit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been really, really concerned about The Trough. Back, 30 years ago, it was a haven in Walsall: the one rock pub; safe; comfortable, decent music.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years it&#8217;s been a bit variable, but overall it&#8217;s remained a rock pub.<\/p>\n<p>So the announcement in local press that it was going to be a fun pub with a Peaky Blinders theme filled me with dread.<\/p>\n<p>As it was? Well, there&#8217;s a few &#8220;Garrison Public House&#8221; signs, a few fake B9 signs, and a shitload of Peaky Blinders pictures that could be really awful.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still the same pub. Rock music, the same layout, really friendly staff. No ale now, but decent lager. Happily, it&#8217;s still a nice place to go. The architecture of the pub actually fits with the times of the TV series, and happily, you could take all the tat out in five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revisit of a revisit of a revisit. I&#8217;d been really, really concerned about The Trough. Back, 30 years ago, it was a haven in Walsall: the one rock pub; safe; comfortable, decent music. Over the years it&#8217;s been a bit variable, but overall it&#8217;s remained a rock pub. So the announcement in local press that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2103\" 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":[82,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revisits","category-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","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=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}