{"id":67352,"date":"2024-11-14T00:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=67352"},"modified":"2024-11-14T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T00:12:30","slug":"post-office-closures-slammed-as-millions-of-elderly-risk-being-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/14\/post-office-closures-slammed-as-millions-of-elderly-risk-being-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Office closures slammed as millions of elderly risk being left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67353\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/post-office-closed-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/post-office-closed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/post-office-closed-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/post-office-closed.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">M<\/span>ore than a 100 potential\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1975373\/post-office-close-branches?int_source=nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Post Office branch closures<\/a> will be &#8220;very dispiriting&#8221; for millions of older people who &#8220;rely on traditional services&#8221;, according to the head of a leading elderly charity.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/post-office-closures-slammed-as-millions-of-elderly-risk-being-left-behind\/ar-AA1u1eiX?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=d05d6d6795e3425983b771eaee822c2e&amp;ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than a 100 potential\u00a0Post Office branch closures will be &#8220;very dispiriting&#8221; for millions of older people who &#8220;rely on traditional services&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/post-office-closed.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67354,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67352\/revisions\/67354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}