{"id":289846,"date":"2025-07-25T06:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289846\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:09:25","slug":"princess-anne-opens-garden-in-sheffield-spinal-injuries-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289846\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne opens garden in Sheffield spinal injuries unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham-born actor George Robinson, an appeal ambassador for the project, called the garden &#8220;incredible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a patient at the spinal injuries unit for almost eight months in 2015, after suffering a severe spinal injury during a game of rugby when he was 17, which left him quadriplegic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;When you spend so much time in hospital, you&#8217;re focused on your physical rehabilitation, but as the days go by, you realise you also need that mental rehabilitation &#8211; sometimes that clinical environment isn&#8217;t the best place for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can feel separated from the world, but a garden connects you back to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the space would give patients a &#8220;sense of purpose&#8221; by taking part in activities such as gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham-born actor George Robinson, an appeal ambassador for the project, called the garden &#8220;incredible&#8221;. He was a patient&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-289846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114912386317550984","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289846","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=289846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}