{"id":807,"date":"2013-06-22T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2013-06-23T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T10:01:04","slug":"the-lych-gate-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"The Lych Gate Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton:<\/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?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;q=lych+gate+tavern&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=uk&amp;hq=lych+gate+tavern&amp;hnear=0x487098817d6d754f:0x66571b177589404d,Walsall,+West+Midlands&amp;cid=0,0,15403099138590078094&amp;t=m&amp;ll=52.586468,-2.128322&amp;spn=0.003259,0.005343&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?client=ubuntu&amp;channel=fs&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;q=lych+gate+tavern&amp;fb=1&amp;gl=uk&amp;hq=lych+gate+tavern&amp;hnear=0x487098817d6d754f:0x66571b177589404d,Walsall,+West+Midlands&amp;cid=0,0,15403099138590078094&amp;t=m&amp;ll=52.586468,-2.128322&amp;spn=0.003259,0.005343&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The latest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?tag=black-country-taverns\">Black Country Taverns<\/a> chain, this is tucked down a pedestrianised street, just by the gates to St Peters Church.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots to recommend it: the landlord and landlady previously ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=21\">Black Country Arms<\/a>, and the owners generally do a good job.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite nice too, but for some reason, it didn&#8217;t hit the spot for me, and I don&#8217;t know why: the beer was great (with a large selection of very well-kept ale), the welcome was fine, there wasn&#8217;t loud music, and there were cobs. The building is old- 16th century in places- and hasn&#8217;t been wrecked during the refurb, but for some reason, it seemed to lack something, like the BCA does for me. The worst thing is, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it I can put down in words, I just felt more at ease in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=661\">The Posada<\/a>, just up the road, even though there&#8217;s so much right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton: View Larger Map The latest in the Black Country Taverns chain, this is tucked down a pedestrianised street, just by the gates to St Peters Church. There&#8217;s lots to recommend it: the landlord and landlady previously ran the Black Country Arms, and the owners generally do a good job. It was quite nice too, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lych Gate Tavern<\/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":[25],"tags":[5,96,198,4,205],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wolverhampton","tag-ale","tag-black-country-taverns","tag-chain","tag-food","tag-wolverhampton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}