{"id":649365,"date":"2010-01-31T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2010-01-31T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T19:30:58","slug":"the-grange-in-decatur-becomes-the-marlay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/649365","title":{"rendered":"The Grange in Decatur becomes The Marlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2280\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2280 \" title=\"marlayjpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/01\/marlayjpeg-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"Courtesy of Marlay House\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of the Marlay House<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last October, the owners of\u00a0 the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.accessatlanta.com\/atlanta-ga\/venues\/show\/512421-the-grange-public-house-formerly-the-angel\">Grange Public House<\/a><\/strong> in Decatur received a letter from the National Grange, an agricultural advocacy group, challenging their rights to the name &#8220;Grange.&#8221; If they chose to, they could pay an annual fee for the naming rights.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the owners &#8212; siblings Colin, Darren and Jen Comer &#8212; decided to rename their popular Irish pub, opening the effort to the public in a &#8220;Rename the Grange&#8221; contest.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening before a crowd of 350 people, the new name was revealed by Decatur mayor Bill Floyd. A sheet dropped to reveal a new sign reading &#8220;The Marlay.&#8221; The full name is the <a href=\"http:\/\/themarlayhouse.com\/\/\"><strong>Marlay House<\/strong>,<\/a> which refers to a famous 18th Century Georgian-style mansion on the outskirts of Dublin. Why reference this building?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because it was called the Grange before that,&#8221; says Colin Comer. &#8220;Then this French fellow [David La Touche, governor of the Bank of Ireland] bought it and changed the name of the Grange to the Marley House for his &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the Marlay House Last October, the owners of\u00a0 the Grange Public House in Decatur received a letter from the National Grange, an agricultural advocacy group, challenging their rights to the name &#8220;Grange.&#8221; If they chose to, they could pay an annual fee for the naming rights. Instead the owners &#8212; siblings Colin, Darren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2IVD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}