{"id":3005,"date":"2025-09-15T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2025-09-19T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:57:37","slug":"the-scholars-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"The Scholar&#8217;s Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2515.8208352623096!2d-1.4069381234156242!3d50.90853117168327!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487476b1916c1683%3A0x1af4b70db1353cc5!2sThe%20Scholars%20Arms!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1758317163951!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:\/\/camra.org.uk\/pubs\/scholars-arms-southampton-188741\">CAMRA\/Whatpub<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeneking.co.uk\/pubs\/hampshire\/scholars-arms\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We should have known better, but we needed a sit down, a drink, and lunch. The outside impressions were of a typical, perhaps student-aimed, city centre pub. <\/p>\n<p>Inside, it was, as our friend said, &#8220;a drinking shed&#8221;. Quite accurate- it&#8217;s a big space, no real character, quite spoons-a-like, down to the mucky table that we had to ask to be cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the staff were pleasant, and service was quick, but the food was a bit disappointing- the bread was past its best, for a start. <\/p>\n<p>This was the worst pub of the trip, but still not actually awful, but compared to the others, a bit of a disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton: CAMRA\/Whatpub Website We should have known better, but we needed a sit down, a drink, and lunch. The outside impressions were of a typical, perhaps student-aimed, city centre pub. Inside, it was, as our friend said, &#8220;a drinking shed&#8221;. Quite accurate- it&#8217;s a big space, no real character, quite spoons-a-like, down to the mucky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=3005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scholar&#8217;s Arms<\/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":[45],"tags":[5,198,4,284,492,495],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hampshire","tag-ale","tag-chain","tag-food","tag-greene-king","tag-nforest2025","tag-southampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","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=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}