{"id":9809,"date":"2013-09-30T23:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2013-09-30T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:08:49","slug":"dr-crossley-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9809","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Crossley Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag13\/13092811.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Crossley Retires\" \/><br \/>\nDr. Neil R Crossley retired today after 32 years and 6 months at The Abingdon Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He joined Dr Vivian, Schofield and Cave on April 1st 1981, when there was a modest two-up-two-down practice on Stert Street. Since then the practice has expanded and taken over neighbouring buildings and hired nurses and become a yellow fever vaccination centre.<\/p>\n<p>Our family have been with him for most of that time and seen him rise up the list, which Dr Buttar will now top. According to his goodbye message &#8211; on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonsurgery.com\/\">practice website<\/a> &#8211; Dr Crossley will continue as a GP appraiser, and do some Locum work, and continue to support Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Crossley did take to twitter for a brief spell. On 30 Mar 2011 he said <em>&#8220;That was hard work. 1 person ill enough for hospital, lots of poorly kids, as well as the usual. And it rained, and I&#8217;m still here ca va&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the locum work and your retirement and thanks for all you have done!<\/p>\n<p>A  contribution to the City Daily Photo Blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/cdpbthemeday.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/09\/october-gallery-details.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 1st theme &#8211; details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Neil R Crossley retired today after 32 years and 6 months at The Abingdon Surgery. He joined Dr Vivian, Schofield and Cave on April 1st 1981, when there was a modest two-up-two-down practice on Stert Street. Since then the practice has expanded and taken over neighbouring buildings and hired nurses and become a yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}