{"id":986,"date":"2014-11-10T14:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2014-11-19T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:49:26","slug":"the-oxford-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"The Oxford Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2233.7906118659885!2d-3.204688999999945!3d55.953001000000015!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4887c7964bb6afbd%3A0x5afd7d122c9f44eb!2sThe+Oxford+Bar!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1416424297233\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was a real surprise: it was on our list because of its literary connections (being the favourite bar of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ian_Rankin\">Ian Rankin<\/a> and his well known character <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inspector_Rebus\">Inspector John Rebus<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lovely. Positively lovely. It&#8217;s a bit of a timewarp, still subdivided up, and the back room we were in had a real fire. No food, no music, no TV, just a quiet, relaxing bar with some superb ale and a lovely quiet bolthole from the city. The staff and locals have a reputation for surliness, but we found them friendly- and we were very obviously tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh: This was a real surprise: it was on our list because of its literary connections (being the favourite bar of Ian Rankin and his well known character Inspector John Rebus). It&#8217;s lovely. Positively lovely. It&#8217;s a bit of a timewarp, still subdivided up, and the back room we were in had a real fire. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/?p=986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Oxford Bar<\/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":[24],"tags":[5,168,10,204],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland","tag-ale","tag-edinburgh","tag-further-afield","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pubblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}