{"id":672128,"date":"2026-01-03T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:22:10","slug":"swindon-woman-wears-1800-hats-in-five-years-for-air-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672128\/","title":{"rendered":"Swindon woman wears 1,800 hats in five years for air ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A woman has worn a different hat every day for the last five years to raise money for charity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hilary Fleming, from Wroughton near Swindon, has raised \u00a35,000 for the Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance with her colourful challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was inspired to take on the fundraiser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-67894163\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after the charity saved her husband, Shaun, twice,<\/a> once in 2013 and again in 2014, after he fell off a ladder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Fleming, who has worn 1,825 different hats so far, said the air ambulance team &#8220;got him to hospital quickly and basically saved his life. So as a payback I try and raise money&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has worn a different hat every day for the last five years to raise money for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-672128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833742553912776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672128","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=672128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}