{"id":281936,"date":"2025-07-22T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281936\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:39:10","slug":"birmingham-children-cheer-on-lioness-hampton-from-hospital-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281936\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham children cheer on Lioness Hampton from hospital beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old was brought up in Studley, Warwickshire, and went to Erasmus Darwin Academy in Burntwood, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She approached the Birmingham charity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bch.org.uk\/news\/new-charity-ambassador-hannah-hampton\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer her support, external<\/a> in 2022, when she was playing for Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her aim was to really help inspire some of the patients,&#8221; said fundraising manager Sheba Ali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To give them a role model that shows, despite your condition or your illness, you can go on to achieve your dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know lots of the kids will be watching on their tablets [on Tuesday] and really cheering her on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 24-year-old was brought up in Studley, Warwickshire, and went to Erasmus Darwin Academy in Burntwood, Staffordshire. She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-281936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114895753363149821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}