{"id":70,"date":"2009-04-09T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-04-09T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:48:30","slug":"the-old-bill-and-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"The Old Bill and Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yardley.<\/p>\n<p>This was out of curiosity mostly: I&#8217;ve passed this pub many times, and it&#8217;s a big, impressive Victorian building (an ex police station, hence the name) that&#8217;s quite a landmark on Coventry Road. I&#8217;d remembered it&#8217;s name as &#8216;Old Bull and Bush&#8217; as in the hideous cockney song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As a pub, it&#8217;s average. Friendly barman, OK locals (though a few looked like career drinkers), standard beers (though the wife beater is about to go because of poor sales). Nothing special, but not awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yardley. This was out of curiosity mostly: I&#8217;ve passed this pub many times, and it&#8217;s a big, impressive Victorian building (an ex police station, hence the name) that&#8217;s quite a landmark on Coventry Road. I&#8217;d remembered it&#8217;s name as &#8216;Old Bull and Bush&#8217; as in the hideous cockney song&#8230; As a pub, it&#8217;s average. Friendly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Old Bill and Bull<\/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],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}