{"id":49,"date":"2009-07-01T22:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2009-07-03T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T13:45:33","slug":"bank-manager","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"Bank Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/revolution_pro-30\/images\/gate\/characters\/bank-manager.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35\" title=\"Bank Manager\" src=\"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/wp-content\/themes\/revolution_pro-30\/images\/gate\/characters\/bank-manager.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span>I\u2019m William Long, Hamgate\u2019s longest standing bank manager. We, my wife Jennifer and I live in Croydon, the leafy bit. I commute to Hamgate daily, which gives me plenty of time to read the Telegraph. I was asked to come to Hamgate to \u2018turn around\u2019 our local branch. We\u2019re now one of the busiest branches in Greater London. My approach has always been: you get out what you put in, always will be.\u00a0 Ten more years until retirement, then Jennifer can enjoy the dream we\u2019ve been saving up for: a cruise across the Atlantic to New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Get on with: Jennifer, she understands me. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Don\u2019t get on with: my mother-in-law. She\u2019s ninety and still thinks I\u2019m not good enough for her daughter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Most likely to say: \u201cYou seem to be missing the point\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Highs and Lows:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>High: Becoming Captain of my local Golf Club \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Low:\u00a0 Being asked to manage the Hamgate branch when I seemed to be doing so well at our central London branch.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m William Long, Hamgate\u2019s longest standing bank manager. We, my wife Jennifer and I live in Croydon, the leafy bit. I commute to Hamgate daily, which gives me plenty of time to read the Telegraph. I was asked to come to Hamgate to \u2018turn around\u2019 our local branch. We\u2019re now one of the busiest branches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-comments.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.outofthegate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}