{"id":4907,"date":"2009-06-22T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2009-06-22T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T09:13:00","slug":"struth-the-tiddly-wink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/06\/struth-the-tiddly-wink\/","title":{"rendered":"STRUTH! The Tiddly (Wink)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/Sj9LTOaeZOI\/AAAAAAAAGsM\/CjqavnC4NTk\/s1600-h\/Tiddly-728208.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/Sj9LTOaeZOI\/AAAAAAAAGsM\/CjqavnC4NTk\/s320\/Tiddly-728208.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350077675998176482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says there&#8217;s certainly truth in advertising in the little English village of Ellerdine near Shewsbury in Shropshire: while the pub&#8217;s official name is the Royal Oak, so many villagers know they&#8217;ll collect their wobbly boots on a visit there, that they simply dub the place &#8216;The Tiddly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After years of trying to promote the real name of the pub, the Royal Oak&#8217;s publican\u00a0decided some years back\u00a0that if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em, and put up a new sign (see pic) for his watering hole.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0OF COURSE\u00a0 The Tiddly&#8217;s the best pub in Ellerdine \u2013 it&#8217;s the ONLY pub in Ellerdine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH ! IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, DAVID ELLIS says there&#8217;s certainly truth in advertising in the little English village of Ellerdine near Shewsbury in Shropshire: while the pub&#8217;s official name is the Royal Oak, so many villagers know they&#8217;ll collect their wobbly boots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}