{"id":172,"date":"2010-07-21T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:01:37","slug":"royal-anglian-breifing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Royal Anglian Breifing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i128.photobucket.com\/albums\/p175\/gledhillc\/RoyalAnglianRegiment2-12July2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"300\" align=\"top\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">John Whittingdale attended a briefing by members of the Royal Anglian Regiment on recent operations including the First Battalion&#8217;s tour of Afghanistan.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The &#8220;Vikings&#8221; were there for 6 months in 2009\/10 and while much real progress was achieved, they lost 5 soldiers with many more injured. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">C Company of 1 Royal Anglian recruits from Essex and John Whittingdale is pictured with Corporal Aaron Kerin and Private Louis Purbrick, both of 1 Royal Anglian. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">John Whittingdale said: &#8220;The heroism and bravery demonstrated by these soldiers on a daily basis is truly inspirational. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude for the work they are doing&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale attended a briefing by members of the Royal Anglian Regiment on recent operations including the First Battalion&#8217;s tour of Afghanistan. The &#8220;Vikings&#8221; were there for 6 months in 2009\/10 and while much real progress was achieved, they lost 5 soldiers with many more injured. C Company of 1 Royal Anglian recruits from Essex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}