{"id":1096,"date":"2010-03-11T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:44:21","slug":"feature-article-the-crown-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/feature-article-the-crown-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Article: The Crown Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie John and Penny McBride visited The Crown Bar one evening in February.<\/p>\n<p>The couple dined downstairs in one of the snugs where Willie John enjoyed a steak and Guinness pie and Penny sampled a lasagne with chips.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bar being packed the service was very good and the dining experience compared favourably with the upstairs restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The bar certainly has the Willie John Seal of approval as he commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An institution, an era that has been preserved and enriched as every year passes. Very tasty food as well!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1097\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1097\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1097\" title=\"Willie John McBride, Crown Bar Belfast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wille John and Penny, greeted outside Belfast&#39;s Crown Bar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1098\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1098\" title=\"Willie John McBride, Crown Bar Belfast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The McBrides enjoy the dining experience at Belfast&#39;s Crown Bar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1099\" title=\"The Crown Bar, Belfast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/footer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie John and Penny McBride visited The Crown Bar one evening in February. The couple dined downstairs in one of the snugs where Willie John enjoyed a steak and Guinness pie and Penny sampled a lasagne with chips. Despite the bar being packed the service was very good and the dining experience compared favourably with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[936],"tags":[937,940,939,17263,938],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-crown-bar","tag-belfast","tag-dining-in-belfast","tag-penny-mcbride","tag-the-crown-bar","tag-willie-john-mcbride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}