{"id":861,"date":"2014-11-14T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2015-01-13T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T09:27:46","slug":"leaving-blackwells-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/leaving-blackwells-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Blackwell&#8217;s &#038; next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/cashmore-leave-blackwells-january\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-862 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-14-at-12.14.43-300x256.png?resize=300%2C256\" alt=\"Leaving Blackwell's Bookseller Article Grab\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-14-at-12.14.43.png?resize=300%2C256&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-14-at-12.14.43.png?w=634&amp;ssl=1 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well what a week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/cashmore-leave-blackwells-january\">We announced\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that I was leaving Blackwell&#8217;s to train as a Priest. Those of you who follow this blog will not be surprised, especially if you\u00a0followed my <a href=\"http:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/tag\/god\/\">posts<\/a> on this recently.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an amazing journey &#8211; I&#8217;ve only been at Blackwell&#8217;s for two years but in that time we&#8217;ve managed to get a huge amount done. Turning up at a company with a blank sheet is an awesome opportunity and I can&#8217;t recall the last time I&#8217;ve had so much fun professionally.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tough decision to leave, but when God calls you answer and&#8230; here I am.<\/p>\n<p>I will be taking up some small consultancy work in the new year to supplement my tiny new income and if you&#8217;re interested in working with me you can <a href=\"mailto:matthew@matthewcashmore.com\">email me <\/a>or contact me on Skype on matthewcashmore. I have a very special day-rate for charities and faith organisations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be taking some time over Christmas to give this blog a bit of a facelift and re-introduce the God Blog to the central theme and perhaps also taking the opportunity to write about bookselling the publishing world as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well what a week. We announced\u00a0\u00a0that I was leaving Blackwell&#8217;s to train as a Priest. Those of you who follow this blog will not be surprised, especially if you\u00a0followed my posts on this recently. It&#8217;s been an amazing journey &#8211; I&#8217;ve only been at Blackwell&#8217;s for two years but in that time we&#8217;ve managed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/leaving-blackwells-next-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaving Blackwell&#8217;s &#038; next steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-god"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}