{"id":774,"date":"2013-02-17T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T20:16:06","slug":"revisit-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Revisit: The Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=102\">Original Post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Crown has been refurbished. Ouside is smartened up, with new plants and seating with sheilding from the A5 (which, even on a cold February night, we used), because&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It&#8217;s even more of a restaurant  and less of a pub. In doing that, the canteen like feel has been reduced, but this is very much not a pub, but a family feedbag type restaurant, part of the Martsons empire. If that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re after, it&#8217;s an improvement and not unpleasant. It&#8217;s fresh and clean, and <strong>very<\/strong> popular, but the beer is pricey and there&#8217;s no pub atmosphere. Staff were pleasant, and there&#8217;s some real ale, as well as actual decent lager, an increasingly rare thing these days, but we found ourselves missing the small, traditional pub-like area at one end which used to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original Post here The Crown has been refurbished. Ouside is smartened up, with new plants and seating with sheilding from the A5 (which, even on a cold February night, we used), because&#8230;. &#8230;It&#8217;s even more of a restaurant and less of a pub. In doing that, the canteen like feel has been reduced, but this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revisit: The Crown<\/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":[14,3],"tags":[5,199,198,4,196],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brownhills","category-walsall","tag-ale","tag-brownhills","tag-chain","tag-food","tag-walsall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}