{"id":9377,"date":"2013-08-05T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2013-08-05T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T22:27:04","slug":"j-d-wetherspoon-and-the-narrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"J.D.Wetherspoon and The Narrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13080502.jpg\" alt=\"The Narrows\" \/><br \/>\nNational pub chain J.D.Wetherspoon has a history of exploring a building\u2019s past when it comes up with a name for a new pub. They did not use the previous use &#8216;Old Post Office&#8217; when naming their new Abingdon pub. Instead the pub chain looked further back into bygone times and called it &#8216;The Narrows&#8217;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13080503.jpg\" alt=\"The Narrows\" \/><br \/>\nWork began on July 18th and should be ready for opening by October, providing about 40 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Lorries, delivering building material, are requested not to park outside and make Abingdon&#8217;s High Street a new bottleneck. Gaffer taped maps show drivers all the way round the one way system &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13080504.jpg\" alt=\"The Narrows\" \/><br \/>\nto the site entrance in the Market Place Car Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National pub chain J.D.Wetherspoon has a history of exploring a building\u2019s past when it comes up with a name for a new pub. They did not use the previous use &#8216;Old Post Office&#8217; when naming their new Abingdon pub. Instead the pub chain looked further back into bygone times and called it &#8216;The Narrows&#8217;. Work [&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-9377","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\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}