{"id":2178,"date":"2019-12-15T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T13:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2019-12-19T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:12:45","slug":"the-baltic-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"The Baltic Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2378.9065195544035!2d-2.9889108841596013!3d53.398612079990095!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487b212852994719%3A0x123f5ca59bcb93c9!2sBaltic%20Fleet!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1576792627423!5m2!1sen!2suk\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatpub.com\/pubs\/MER\/2\/baltic-fleet-liverpool\">Whatpub Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There had to be one disappointment, didn&#8217;t there? This was another pub I specifically wanted to visit. Google has it as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n19th-century pub with a mahogany bar and an open fire, serving its own cellar-brewed ales.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pub Curmudgeon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2019\/10\/goingdown-to-liverpool-part-2.html\">blog<\/a> describes it as <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>gave the impression of being unsure whether it wanted to be a modern craft bar or a traditional pub. It also seemed in places to be straddling the dividing line between shabby chic and tatty. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is fair comment IMO. I think we caught it at a bad time; we needed food and there wasn&#8217;t any, and we were expecting a bit more Victorian grandeur, but the inside is stripped out, a bit shabby, and was freezing cold (the aforementioned open fire was not lit); all the customers were wearing coats. Also, the toilets were being cleaned, leaving one disabled toilet for all customers (thankfully not that many).<\/p>\n<p>Beer was fine, to be fair, but it wasn&#8217;t a comfortable or pleasant place to drink on a cold December day, sadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool: Whatpub Link There had to be one disappointment, didn&#8217;t there? This was another pub I specifically wanted to visit. Google has it as: 19th-century pub with a mahogany bar and an open fire, serving its own cellar-brewed ales. Pub Curmudgeon&#8217;s blog describes it as gave the impression of being unsure whether it wanted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Baltic Fleet<\/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":[421,142],"tags":[5,164],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liverpool","category-merseyside","tag-ale","tag-victorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}