{"id":9742,"date":"2013-09-18T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2013-09-18T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:23:46","slug":"nags-head-in-the-good-beer-guide-some-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9742","title":{"rendered":"Nags Head In the Good Beer Guide + some history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-H8qpo2qs8cw\/UjjYakwSnOI\/AAAAAAAAPD8\/2qmimeQhXyo\/s1600\/13091701.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-H8qpo2qs8cw\/UjjYakwSnOI\/AAAAAAAAPD8\/2qmimeQhXyo\/s1600\/13091701.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe new edition of the Good Beer Guide puts the Nags Head in Abingdon in the top 10% of pubs in the UK &#8211; some achievement given that the pub only re-opened its doors in November 2012.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jSlGlqxyDlc\/UjjZEl7fv7I\/AAAAAAAAPEE\/niDnB4AKmW8\/s1600\/13091702.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jSlGlqxyDlc\/UjjZEl7fv7I\/AAAAAAAAPEE\/niDnB4AKmW8\/s1600\/13091702.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Nags Head is situated on Abingdon Bridge and has four regular beers, including &#8216;Abingdon Bridge&#8217; from the Loose Cannon brewery in Abingdon, and four guest beers.<\/p>\n<p>The Nags Head re-opened in November 2012, having been closed for almost a year &#8211;  at a time when other pubs were closing for good, 2 taken over by Tesco.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-e58U42AHSN0\/UjjbSfCrdII\/AAAAAAAAPEQ\/KgIbgzecDrc\/s1600\/13091704.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-e58U42AHSN0\/UjjbSfCrdII\/AAAAAAAAPEQ\/KgIbgzecDrc\/s1600\/13091704.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Street guide of 1869, in the local history section of Abingdon Library, shows what businesses have survived 144 years. There is one shop, Smiths The Chemist, a few churches, and several pubs including the Nags Head. I wonder what gives pubs such longevity? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new edition of the Good Beer Guide puts the Nags Head in Abingdon in the top 10% of pubs in the UK &#8211; some achievement given that the pub only re-opened its doors in November 2012. The Nags Head is situated on Abingdon Bridge and has four regular beers, including &#8216;Abingdon Bridge&#8217; from the [&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-9742","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\/9742","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=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}