{"id":151618,"date":"2025-06-02T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151618\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:18:08","slug":"i-left-london-for-somerset-but-realised-soho-is-the-real-home-of-village-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151618\/","title":{"rendered":"I left London for Somerset, but realised Soho is the real home of &#8216;village&#8217; life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, Soho thrums like the market town in a children\u2019s picture book; rich with life, locals and a sense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community<\/a> missing in many rural places.Soho looks the part; with its winding cobble street, wood-panel pubs, and local watering pump. It has the archetypes of a village \u2014 the square (Soho and Golden), the church (St. Patricks, St. Annes, Our Lady of Assumption and St Gregory), the local coffee shop (Bar Italia, established 1949) the vegetable market on Berwick Street, two local newspapers \u2013 The Westminster Extra and The Soho Times, and a local, The French House, where landlady Lesley Lewis knows everyone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By contrast, Soho thrums like the market town in a children\u2019s picture book; rich with life, locals and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,5554,61731,393,4884,257,64699,2550,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-country-life","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-neighbourhood","15":"tag-soho","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612791128852428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}