{"id":7290,"date":"2012-09-11T20:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2012-09-11T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:58:33","slug":"catering-and-innkeeping-in-abingdon-on-thames-gets-more-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Investment in the Crown and Thistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caterersearch.com\/Articles\/03\/09\/2012\/345191\/Oakman-Inns-buys-sixth-site-and-plans-to-sell-British-Larder.htm\">Caterer and Innkeeper<\/a> a couple of days ago &#8230; <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12090903.jpg\" alt=\"More Investment\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Oakman Inns and Restaurants has bought the freehold of the Crown and Thistle in Abingdon-on-Thames and it is due to close in January for a \u00a31.4m refurbishment.<\/p>\n<p>Oakman will completely overhaul the bar and restaurant areas to create a modern pub comprising a restaurant and two bars, as well as 19 bedrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to the development of the Nags Head Inn, the Old Post Office Inn or however Weatherspoons re-name the business, and the new restaurants in the Old Gaol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story appeared in the Caterer and Innkeeper a couple of days ago &#8230; &#8220;Oakman Inns and Restaurants has bought the freehold of the Crown and Thistle in Abingdon-on-Thames and it is due to close in January for a \u00a31.4m refurbishment. Oakman will completely overhaul the bar and restaurant areas to create a modern pub [&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-7290","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\/7290","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=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}