{"id":33018,"date":"2024-12-09T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33018"},"modified":"2024-12-09T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:16:47","slug":"the-magic-midget-becomes-the-roaring-raindrop-as-times-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33018","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Midget becomes The Roaring Raindrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024120903.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Midget pub in Abingdon is set to reopen on Friday, December 13th, 2024, under a new name: The Roaring Raindrop. The new name pays tribute to the last record-breaking MG car made in Abingdon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024120904.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe old name honoured the record-breaking 750cc MG &#8216;Magic&#8217; Midget cars of the 1930s, produced in Abingdon. It was a clever name as MG appears in both Magic and Midget.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024120901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe pub has been closed for a revamp and rebranding following an online petition signed by over 1,000 people who objected to the name &#8216;The Midget&#8217; which when applied to small people is insulting. The name was changed from &#8216;The Magic Midget&#8217; to &#8216;The Midget&#8217; in about 2002.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag24\/2024120902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe address of the pub is The Roaring Raindrop, Midget Close, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midget pub in Abingdon is set to reopen on Friday, December 13th, 2024, under a new name: The Roaring Raindrop. The new name pays tribute to the last record-breaking MG car made in Abingdon. The old name honoured the record-breaking 750cc MG &#8216;Magic&#8217; Midget cars of the 1930s, produced in Abingdon. It was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018","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=33018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}