{"id":2970,"date":"2025-08-11T21:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:51:06","slug":"revisit-the-shire-oak-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Revisit: The Shire Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=1272\">Previous Post Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/shire-oak-walsall-wood-119575\">CAMRA\/Whatpub link<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shireoakwalsall.co.uk\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last post about The Shire Oak was almost a decade ago, just after the refurb, and I visited maybe once or twice after that, but it&#8217;s been some time since I visited.<\/p>\n<p>We drove up, as it&#8217;s too far for us to walk these days. We&#8217;d no plans for tea and with one thing and another, hadn&#8217;t been out in the evening for some time, and we&#8217;d not eaten here this millennium (!)<\/p>\n<p>Now the refurb is 10 years old, it&#8217;s looking a bit dated: very red, and reminiscent of a slightly tired Highlands pub with the tartan-ish carpet.<\/p>\n<p>However, things were actually pretty good. Alcohol-free lager on draught, pleasant young chap serving, and decent, reasonably-priced food. Would have preferred the 90s dance music to be quieter or absent, but it wasn&#8217;t too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Post Here CAMRA\/Whatpub link Website My last post about The Shire Oak was almost a decade ago, just after the refurb, and I visited maybe once or twice after that, but it&#8217;s been some time since I visited. We drove up, as it&#8217;s too far for us to walk these days. We&#8217;d no plans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=2970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisit: The Shire Oak<\/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":[14,82,3,8],"tags":[5,198,4],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brownhills","category-revisits","category-walsall","category-walsall-wood","tag-ale","tag-chain","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}