{"id":257,"date":"2006-01-02T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=257"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:33:28","slug":"starting-the-year-as-we-mean-to-go-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/starting-the-year-as-we-mean-to-go-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Starting the year as we mean to go on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Continuing on from last year, let&#8217;s get 2006 rolling with another photo of this website&#8217;s patron saint:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Insert joke about wax head here.\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/benthampub02.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/66\/666\/Jeremy_Bentham\/Bloomsbury\">the Jeremy Bentham pub<\/a> in Bloomsbury. Just behind him, further down the street, is the building that houses <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/06\/who-are-people-in-your-neighbourhood.html\">his notorious Auto-Icon<\/a>.  On the street corner is a large plaque set into the pub wall, telling passersby the Bentham story, much of which seems to have been cribbed from for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Bentham\">the Wikipedia article<\/a> about him, particularly the guff about his stuffed corpse being dragged out only for special university occasions.  A stroll one block over will verify that the man is <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/09\/well-always-have-jeremy-bentham-to.html\">on permanent display<\/a>.  <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Haven&#8217;t drunk in here yet, but the pub reviews I just looked up for the above link says they sometimes stock a cask of Orkney Dark Island, one of the world&#8217;s greatest beers.   Must investigate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on from last year, let&#8217;s get 2006 rolling with another photo of this website&#8217;s patron saint:This is the Jeremy Bentham pub in Bloomsbury. Just behind him, further down the street, is the building that houses his notorious Auto-Icon. On the street corner is a large plaque set into the pub wall, telling passersby the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}