{"id":39,"date":"1979-08-20T08:00:31","date_gmt":"1979-08-20T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-07-05T06:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T06:49:43","slug":"proud-to-call-myself-a-veteran-of-the-british-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Proud to call myself a veteran of the British Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1979\/08\/IMG_0584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" title=\"These Colours Never Run\" src=\"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1979\/08\/IMG_0584-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1979\/08\/IMG_0584-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1979\/08\/IMG_0584.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the tender age of 17 I enlisted at the Army Careers Office (Leeds) into the Junior Leader&#8217;s Regiment Royal Artillery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Script note: \u00a05th July 2012. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18 years 254 days later I left the service \u00a0following a serious accident in which I suffered serious multiple injuries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8230; 33 years on I would still lay down my life for Queen and Country and will remember daily those men &amp; women who have paid the ultimate price to protect peace. \u00a0We will be forever in their debt; and THEY, will be FOREVER in or thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the tender age of 17 I enlisted at the Army Careers Office (Leeds) into the Junior Leader&#8217;s Regiment Royal Artillery&#8230; Script note: \u00a05th July 2012. \u00a0 18 years 254 days later I left the service \u00a0following a serious accident in which I suffered serious multiple injuries&#8230; Today&#8230; 33 years on I would still lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicferguson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}