{"id":199,"date":"2016-07-11T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lastingtouch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2016-10-20T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T10:03:14","slug":"summer-wind-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lastingtouch.co.uk\/blog\/summer-wind-down","title":{"rendered":"Summer wind down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve followed me from the start, you will know that the reason I started my business in the first place was so that I could earn an income with flexible hours around my husband and my children.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now 3 years into my business and I have started to see a pattern of winding down over the summer months. 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