{"id":3966,"date":"2008-02-15T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T09:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:30:26","slug":"here-it-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"Here it is! The official &#8220;Best Pub in Britain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s named for a pig breed! The Old Spot Inn, Dursley Gloustershire<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=415,height=309,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/15\/pub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pub\" height=\"297\" alt=\"Pub\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/images\/2008\/02\/15\/pub.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global\/main.jhtml?xml=\/global\/2008\/02\/15\/noindex\/npub115.xml&amp;CMP=EMC-expat2008\"><strong>Pub named after pig elected best &#8211; Telegraph<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"story2\">The Old Spot Inn, in Dursley, Glos, was praised yesterday by the Campaign for Real Ale as a well-run community pub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">The century-old free house, owned by Ric Saintly and run by Steve and Belinda Herbert, is named after the Gloucestershire Old Spot breed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story2\">The award from Camra coincides with the launch of a campaign to encourage people to visit pubs during this traditionally quiet time of year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s named for a pig breed! The Old Spot Inn, Dursley Gloustershire Pub named after pig elected best &#8211; Telegraph The Old Spot Inn, in Dursley, Glos, was praised yesterday by the Campaign for Real Ale as a well-run community pub. The century-old free house, owned by Ric Saintly and run by Steve and Belinda [&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-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9320,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}