{"id":1602,"date":"2025-04-15T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:46:29","slug":"retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/04\/15\/retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finally decided to retire from working for FAITH Christian Group officially as from the end of May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made.  Twenty years is a long time to be responsible for such an organisation. It becomes as much a part of you as you are of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One immediate benefit is finding more time to sit typing a post on one of my websites! But small comfort for knowing that no-one is going to be looking to me for direction or decisions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also just so happens that today is the <strong>anniversary <\/strong>of my marriage to <strong>Penny <\/strong>back in 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yep, 53 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-691x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1605\" width=\"340\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-202x300.jpg 202w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-1036x1536.jpg 1036w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/04\/penny-reading-2-scaled.jpg 1727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally decided to retire from working for FAITH Christian Group officially as from the end of May 2025. It was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made. Twenty years is a long time to be responsible for such an organisation. It becomes as much a part of you as you are of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2025\/04\/15\/retirement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retirement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}