{"id":412380,"date":"2025-09-10T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412380\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:49:19","slug":"daughter-remembered-as-baton-of-hope-tour-reaches-bradford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412380\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter remembered as Baton of Hope tour reaches Bradford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Smith, who carried the baton through the streets of Keighley, said: &#8220;I tried taking my life three times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I never thought I&#8217;d make anything of myself or encourage anybody, but I&#8217;m holding this [baton] and I&#8217;m incredibly fortunate and thankful that I&#8217;m here to carry it now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Smith now runs talks about mental health with teenagers at Keighley College, where he arrived with the baton to a round of applause from students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I had the support at school, I would have been better equipped to cope with the thoughts and feelings and they wouldn&#8217;t have built up and built until I thought there was no way out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Becoming emotional, Mr Smith added: &#8220;I do feel guilty that I survived and some people didn&#8217;t, but I can&#8217;t control that, so I need to focus on celebrating that I am here and I&#8217;m going to put that to good use.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Smith, who carried the baton through the streets of Keighley, said: &#8220;I tried taking my life three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-412380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178436338584124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412380","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=412380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}