{"id":8100,"date":"2021-03-23T08:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T08:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:01:40","slug":"time-to-build-a-life-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/time-to-build-a-life-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to build a life plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>The world has a funny habit of hitting us hard when we least expect it. And it did just that to Gwyn Williams in 2001 \u2013 on the fateful and harrowing day of 9\/11.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many of us have been on journeys with unscheduled stops, trips that have been unexpectedly side-swiped by circumstances \u2013 with all the wheels falling off of life\u2019s carriages?<\/p>\n<p>In moments that are out of your control, your world changes.<\/p>\n<p>For me, 9\/11 was one of those moments.&nbsp; I was standing in a pub in London looking at the possibilities of developing a new, themed restaurant chain \u2013 only to go back to base and find that our order book had been decimated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We went&nbsp; from jet-setting to hitching a ride home. It was hero to zero in a matter of hours!<\/p>\n<p>Three redundancies ensued over the next 12 months as the ripple-effect ripped through the events and leisure industry. From chauffeur driven cars, I was suddenly pushing wheelbarrows, being a plasterer\u2019s mate and struggling to keep a roof over...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has a funny habit of hitting us hard when we least expect it. And it did just that to Gwyn Williams in 2001 \u2013 on the fateful and harrowing day of 9\/11. &nbsp; How many of us have been on journeys with unscheduled stops, trips that have been unexpectedly side-swiped by circumstances \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}