{"id":561,"date":"2011-07-30T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T12:36:34","slug":"the-old-contemptibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"The Old Contemptibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=old+contemptibles+birmingham&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;hq=old+contemptibles&amp;hnear=Birmingham,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=52.483055,-1.899476&amp;spn=0.003267,0.005343&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=old+contemptibles+birmingham&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;hq=old+contemptibles&amp;hnear=Birmingham,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=52.483055,-1.899476&amp;spn=0.003267,0.005343&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Situated close to Snow Hill station, this is a large Victorian pub, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk\/\">Nicholsons<\/a> chain, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=72\">The Shakespeare<\/a> and errm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=454\">The Shakespeare<\/a>. For a chain pub it&#8217;s very nice indeed. Somehow it has been missed from PubBlog despite it being a regular visit in the big bad city. Never eaten here, but the food looks OK, the beer is great, and a good choice, and the staff usually good too. The only thing to watch is that they sometimes use tankard type glasses [shudder], and at weekday lunchtimes it&#8217;s full of lots of bankers. A wunch of them, to be precise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham: View Larger Map Situated close to Snow Hill station, this is a large Victorian pub, part of the Nicholsons chain, like The Shakespeare and errm, The Shakespeare. For a chain pub it&#8217;s very nice indeed. Somehow it has been missed from PubBlog despite it being a regular visit in the big bad city. Never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Old Contemptibles<\/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":[18,9],"tags":[5,201,198,4],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-chain","tag-ale","tag-birmingham","tag-chain","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}