{"id":651,"date":"2012-02-04T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2022-11-02T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:30:13","slug":"the-pretty-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"The Pretty Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walsall:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=john+st+walsall&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=John+St,+Walsall,+West+Midlands+WS2+8AF,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;ll=52.591655,-1.984648&amp;spn=0.003559,0.006899&amp;t=m&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;q=john+st+walsall&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=John+St,+Walsall,+West+Midlands+WS2+8AF,+United+Kingdom&amp;gl=uk&amp;ll=52.591655,-1.984648&amp;spn=0.003559,0.006899&amp;t=m&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Long overdue for a blogged visit, we hadn&#8217;t been here in a long time, so a visit in the company of Andy seemed appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The Pretty Bricks has always been known as such, but it&#8217;s official name <i>was<\/i> The Tap and Spile, with The Pretty Bricks being a nickname from the unusual glazed bricks on the frontage. For some years it&#8217;s been noted for real ale.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a traditional 2 room pub, now owned by Black Country Taverns, a small but growing chain in and around the Black Country, who specialise in traditional pubs, and they&#8217;ve adopted the name as it&#8217;s official one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great place: 5 or 6 well-kept real ales, food (both a menu and cobs\/pork pie), no music or gaming machines, and a friendly welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walsall: View Larger Map Long overdue for a blogged visit, we hadn&#8217;t been here in a long time, so a visit in the company of Andy seemed appropriate. The Pretty Bricks has always been known as such, but it&#8217;s official name was The Tap and Spile, with The Pretty Bricks being a nickname from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pretty Bricks<\/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":[9,3],"tags":[5,96,4,196],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-black-country-taverns","tag-food","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}