{"id":20003,"date":"2018-02-04T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20003"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T21:37:07","slug":"white-horse-pub-and-the-abingdon-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20003","title":{"rendered":"White Horse Pub and The Abingdon Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020402.jpg\" alt=\"The White Horse\" \/><br \/>\nI noticed today that the sign at the White Horse Pub in Ock Street has changed from the head of a white horse to The White Horse &#8211; the ancient monument near the Ridgeway, after which the Vale of the White Horse is named.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020403.jpg\" alt=\"The White Horse\" \/><br \/>\nThe pub has been there since at least 1830, when mentioned in the Pigots Directory. It looks a typical Ock Street building and is one of only two pubs now along Ock Street. The Morris Dancers used to have far more to dance at.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what sort of horse the original landlord of the White Horse intended. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pub_names\">Wikipedia says<\/a> &#8216; <i>White Horse: the sign of the House of Hanover, adopted by many eighteenth-century inns to demonstrate loyalty to the new Royal dynasty.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But in these changed times the new pub sign looks very nice to me.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18020401.jpg\" alt=\"The White Horse\" \/><br \/>\nLast week I was at Wantage and passed the prominent sign of&nbsp; the recently refurbished Abingdon Arms. The latest comment on facebook says &#8216;<i>Brilliant honest to goodness PUB! Does exactly what it says on the tin. Wish there were more places like this and not the Slug and Cucumber brigade!&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed today that the sign at the White Horse Pub in Ock Street has changed from the head of a white horse to The White Horse &#8211; the ancient monument near the Ridgeway, after which the Vale of the White Horse is named. The pub has been there since at least 1830, when mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}