{"id":3328,"date":"2025-11-04T21:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillgreencohousing.org\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:42:51","slug":"from-growing-up-in-community-to-getting-ready-for-senior-cohousing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillgreencohousing.org\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"From growing up in community to getting ready for senior cohousing."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3328\" class=\"elementor elementor-3328\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-31ccf6fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"31ccf6fe\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-19fd42e9\" data-id=\"19fd42e9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61d967ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61d967ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Paul shares the pros and cons of communal living and explains why he and his wife Marie have joined Still Green. He also talks about the general concept of senior cohousing and his expectations of the community we are looking to build in Wolverton.<\/p><p>Paul and Marie met in Wolverton 25 years ago and live just a few minutes walk from the Love Wolverton site. They are active members of the local community and we are looking forward to sharing life with them in Still Green.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/diggersanddreamers.org.uk\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diggersanddreamers.org.uk\/podcasts<\/a>\u00a0(dated 24 September 2025)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still Green member, Paul Sedgwick, describes his experience of growing up in a community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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