{"id":2535,"date":"2022-08-27T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2022-08-28T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T13:47:13","slug":"the-loft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"The Loft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willenhall:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2424.149635855773!2d-2.0546552!3d52.5849878!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4870993b100a2bb7%3A0xacac29b2e9aff8bb!2sThe%20Loft!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1661691502577!5m2!1sen!2suk\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatpub.com\/pubs\/WAL\/4327\/loft-willenhall\">Whatpub Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name, and the grey paint job visible on the Whatpub link had me expecting trendy craft micropub, but this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>This was at one point <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/famous-mad-orourkes-to-make-a-comeback-67002\">Mad O&#8217;Rourke<\/a>&#8216;s Kipper House, and it was that incarnation I visited it as back in the early 90s. It&#8217;s also been known as The Worker&#8217;s Rest, which I felt suited it better.<\/p>\n<p>Now? It&#8217;s a unremarkable but OK backstreet boozer. A little tatty in places, but friendly enough. No ale, but 2 drinkable lagers. No wine- &#8220;We&#8217;ve just sold the last one&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing to write home about but an honest enough everyday pub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willenhall: Whatpub Link The name, and the grey paint job visible on the Whatpub link had me expecting trendy craft micropub, but this is not the case. This was at one point Mad O&#8217;Rourke&#8216;s Kipper House, and it was that incarnation I visited it as back in the early 90s. It&#8217;s also been known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Loft<\/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":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walsall","category-willenhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","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=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}