{"id":555,"date":"2008-01-22T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=555"},"modified":"2008-01-22T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:01:00","slug":"the-end-of-aw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-end-of-aw\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of A&amp;W"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneakymonkey\/33160246\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/21\/33160246_ddc642aaee_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sneakymonkey\/33160246\/\">A &amp; W<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sneakymonkey\/\">sneaky monkey<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>When I moved to Glasgow, a burger place that I used to pass almost every day was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A%26W_Restaurants\">A&#038;W<\/a> on Renfield Street.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t enter it for a long time, but the signs advertising root beer, floats and other American oddities were puzzling me.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally tried it out, I was pleasantly surprised: They made lovely milkshakes (with real ice-cream), their burgers tasted of beef, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>According to the photo, it used to be only an A&#038;W, but the way I remember it, half of the place was taken up by a KFC (same owner).<\/p>\n<p>However, now KFC seems to have taken over the whole thing, and as far as I can gather, there is now no A&#038;W in Glasgow any more. \ud83d\ude41<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &amp; W Originally uploaded by sneaky monkey When I moved to Glasgow, a burger place that I used to pass almost every day was the A&#038;W on Renfield Street. I didn&#8217;t enter it for a long time, but the signs advertising root beer, floats and other American oddities were puzzling me. When I finally tried it out, I was pleasantly surprised: They made lovely milkshakes (with real ice-cream), their burgers tasted of beef, and so on. According to the photo, it used to be only an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}