{"id":25247,"date":"2006-09-19T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/19\/pubs-need-rest-and-renovation\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:27:00","slug":"pubs-need-rest-and-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25247","title":{"rendered":"Pubs need rest and renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/bluebore3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/bluebore3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The windows of the Blue Boar pub in Bath street have been covered with sheets from the Sun Newspaper. And a blackboard has been put up saying &#8220;Closed for Re&#8230;&#8221; I Couldn&#8217;t make out the remainder of the word, whether it was redecoration, repainting, restoration, renovation, or repair&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/bluebore2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/bluebore2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>.. or even rest, recovery and recuperation. The Blue Boar is an old pub, over 500 years old, with an extension at the back. So sometimes you can experience<br \/>an olde worlde open fire, but at other times Big Screen Football or Saturday Night Fever. Perhaps the old building needs a rest and a chance to recuperate after the long summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/oldanchcov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/oldanchcov.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Another pub going through a renovation is the Old Anchor on St Helens Wharf. <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/wet-wellies-welcome-www.html\">In January<\/a>, the pub was looking for a new landlord. The new landlords, who took over in March or April, seem to be doing well, and the pub is thriving again, particularly on Thursday evening when there is a quiz. In their case I can see that half the roof tiles have been replaced so they are re-roofing. The sign in the middle of the scaffold says &#8220;Open as Usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The windows of the Blue Boar pub in Bath street have been covered with sheets from the Sun Newspaper. And a blackboard has been put up saying &#8220;Closed for Re&#8230;&#8221; I Couldn&#8217;t make out the remainder of the word, whether it was redecoration, repainting, restoration, renovation, or repair&#8230; .. or even rest, recovery and recuperation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247","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=25247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}