{"id":17470,"date":"2013-01-22T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/life-is-wonderful-says-dakar-amputee\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:23:01","slug":"life-is-wonderful-says-dakar-amputee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/life-is-wonderful-says-dakar-amputee\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is wonderful, says Dakar amputee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever forget that your life is always in front of you, that it\u2019s fun and that it\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

A single sentence that sums up everything the race2recovery team of injured soldiers set out to prove; everything that, in fact, they did prove \u2013 in sensational style.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, amid ecstatic scenes in the Chilean capital of Santiago, two members of the 28-strong team nursed their 4\u00d74 vehicle \u2013 which they nicknamed Joy \u2013 across the hot, dusty finishing line to complete arguably the toughest race in the world \u2013 the Dakar Rally.<\/p>\n

As they did so, Ballymena-born soldier Corporal Philip \u2018Barney\u2019 Gillespie (the co-driver) and his driver, Major Matt O\u2019Hare, made history; they became the first ever disability team to finish the legendary event.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four-year old Barney lost a leg when he stood on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan\u2019s Helmand Province two years ago.<\/p>\n

Continue reading.<\/a> \u2013 BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cNever forget that your life is always in front of you, that it\u2019s fun and that it\u2019s wonderful.\u201d A single sentence that sums up everything the race2recovery team of injured soldiers set out to prove; everything that, in fact, they did prove \u2013 in sensational style. On Saturday evening, amid ecstatic scenes in the Chilean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}