{"id":1702,"date":"2016-06-02T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2020-04-18T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:43:03","slug":"hello-word-june-2016-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/02\/hello-word-june-2016-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello World June 2016.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are we almost halfway through the year?!<\/p>\n<p>Just realised I haven\u2019t written anything since the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t intentional!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a particularly manic start to the year and something <a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/21\/taking-stock\/\">I learnt long ago<\/a> is that sometimes you have to stop doing one thing if you want to doing something else.<\/p>\n<p>But I do miss writing so this is me just trying to flex that muscle again.<\/p>\n<p>So in terms of big events in the first  half of the year\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>We\u2019ve moved house <\/strong>(and I never want to do it again!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capturemove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Capturemove\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capturemove_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Capturemove\" width=\"336\" height=\"340\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I ran the London Marathon <\/strong>(4 hours 26 minutes \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/justgiving.com\/AndyParkes9\">raised over \u00a31000 for Meningitis Now)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MeningitisNowPic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"MeningitisNowPic\" src=\"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MeningitisNowPic_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"MeningitisNowPic\" width=\"359\" height=\"536\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>and my brother got married!<\/strong> (this is us though\u2026obviously. 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