{"id":68069,"date":"2024-12-04T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=68069"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:09:55","slug":"worlds-first-ymca-in-central-london-closes-for-good-after-becoming-too-expensive-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/worlds-first-ymca-in-central-london-closes-for-good-after-becoming-too-expensive-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s first YMCA in Central London closes for good after becoming too expensive to run"},"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-68070\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YMCA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YMCA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YMCA-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/YMCA.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he world\u2019s first YMCA is being shut down and sold after 113 years in Central London. The historic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mylondon.news\/news\/zone-1-news\/man-stabbed-early-morning-near-29588947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Great Russell Street<\/a> facility will close its doors for the final time on February 7, 2025\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/world-s-first-ymca-in-central-london-closes-for-good-after-becoming-too-expensive-to-run\/ar-AA1vgOsV?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=81ede5d879f740b4a9ab697e89101fad&amp;ei=68\"> 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>The world\u2019s first YMCA is being shut down and sold after 113 years in Central London. The historic\u00a0Great Russell Street facility will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68069","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\/12\/YMCA.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68069","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=68069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68071,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68069\/revisions\/68071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}