{"id":41034,"date":"2026-08-28T00:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/smedley-closure-could-force-staff-into-redundancy-or-retirement-the-southport-lead\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T00:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:25:18","slug":"smedley-closure-could-force-staff-into-redundancy-or-retirement-the-southport-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/smedley-closure-could-force-staff-into-redundancy-or-retirement-the-southport-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Smedley closure could force staff into redundancy or retirement &#8211; The Southport Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMickFVX3lxTFBTYzdydkdxcWZ0R2hicjhBQXhEdXVyQ1ozdGVNaFhod3ppOVBfM1gzcV9wRlgtbE0wWE45X2RiM3ZaUXZIdVZDNHRIa1BXaDlfZzhKSXoyeFJaVk5DaTRqUnhrRjFicUpSM0w4NzRwUWExUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMickFVX3lxTFBTYzdydkdxcWZ0R2hicjhBQXhEdXVyQ1ozdGVNaFhod3ppOVBfM1gzcV9wRlgtbE0wWE45X2RiM3ZaUXZIdVZDNHRIa1BXaDlfZzhKSXoyeFJaVk5DaTRqUnhrRjFicUpSM0w4NzRwUWExUQ?oc=5\">Smedley closure could force staff into redundancy or retirement<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The Southport Lead<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMickFVX3lxTFBTYzdydkdxcWZ0R2hicjhBQXhEdXVyQ1ozdGVNaFhod3ppOVBfM1gzcV9wRlgtbE0wWE45X2RiM3ZaUXZIdVZDNHRIa1BXaDlfZzhKSXoyeFJaVk5DaTRqUnhrRjFicUpSM0w4NzRwUWExUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMickFVX3lxTFBTYzdydkdxcWZ0R2hicjhBQXhEdXVyQ1ozdGVNaFhod3ppOVBfM1gzcV9wRlgtbE0wWE45X2RiM3ZaUXZIdVZDNHRIa1BXaDlfZzhKSXoyeFJaVk5DaTRqUnhrRjFicUpSM0w4NzRwUWExUQ?oc=5\">Smedley closure could force staff into redundancy or retirement<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The Southport Lead<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geographic","category-southport","category-sw-lancs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancsnews4u.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}