{"id":368416,"date":"2025-08-23T23:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:47:15","slug":"postie-walks-400-miles-from-co-durham-to-cornwall-for-mental-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368416\/","title":{"rendered":"Postie walks 400 miles from Co Durham to Cornwall for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nikki Gaynor, who is originally from Launceston, Cornwall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn92j070wzdo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">began her journey<\/a> on 11 August at the Royal Mail sorting office in Darlington, County Durham, where she now lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Gaynor, who is described as &#8220;The Walking Postie&#8221;, said she was raising awareness after losing her best friend to suicide and wanted to get people talking about their feelings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I started the journey because in the north-east of England we had the highest suicide rate in the UK, on average six people a week,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080753630293468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368416","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=368416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}