{"id":5167,"date":"2020-08-12T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:27:05","slug":"hero-simon-battles-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/hero-simon-battles-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero Simon battles on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>In the first half of a two-part interview for Sorted, Simon Weston talks about losing friends, forgiving enemies and battling on.<\/p>\n<p>Q: You\u2019ve received an OBE, a CBE and an honorary doctorate \u2013 to name just a few of your awards and honours! Which ones mean the most to you?<\/p>\n<p>As a soldier, I saw my fair share of aggression and roughness and I was a part of some of it as well, but what left a mark on my heart more than anything was kindness, decency and humanity. Moments of heroism, moments of courage \u2013 moments of sheer terror, and people doing it anyway. That\u2019s what stays with me more than anything else. That\u2019s why the awards mean so much to me, because it\u2019s a recognition of my efforts. It\u2019s really kind that somebody nominated me and I always feel thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>All the awards are immensely emotive, and each one is special in its own way \u2013 particularly the ones voted for by the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom of the City of Liverpool was special because Liverpool took me to their hearts. ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of a two-part interview for Sorted, Simon Weston talks about losing friends, forgiving enemies and battling on. Q: You\u2019ve received an OBE, a CBE and an honorary doctorate \u2013 to name just a few of your awards and honours! Which ones mean the most to you? As a soldier, I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}