{"id":3575,"date":"2014-03-13T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:06:32","slug":"living-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/living-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you living the dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/living-dream\/img_2649\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3579\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3579\" alt=\"IMG_2649\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2649.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2649.jpg 500w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2649-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2649-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just back from a fantastic shoot at a wonderful home, right next to the River Thames.<\/p>\n<p>When I typed the postcode into the SatNav, I\u2019d no idea that the property would be in such a stunning waterside location, or that I was about to meet one of the most positive men I\u2019ve ever encountered in all my years in journalism.<\/p>\n<p>His story was incredible and made the little wooden Living The Dream sign, hanging in the living room, extremely poignant.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering you\u2019ve got prostate cancer in the middle of building your new home is not what any man wants. However, despite this, and not the easiest of upbringings, this genial owner was there yesterday, greeting me with a huge smile and a very warm welcome at the start of one of the most memorable days of my career.<\/p>\n<p>This house, complete with a mooring for his motorboat, is a total triumph, particularly when you hear the moving backstory. Now it\u2019s time to tell the tale\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/living-dream\/img_2680\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3581\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3581\" alt=\"IMG_2680\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2680.jpg\" width=\"825\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2680.jpg 825w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2680-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2680-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from a fantastic shoot at a wonderful home, right next to the River Thames. When I typed the postcode into the SatNav, I\u2019d no idea that the property&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}