{"id":11865,"date":"2022-03-03T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2022-03-03T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:35:06","slug":"the-great-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/?p=11865","title":{"rendered":"The Great Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk\/news\/10487627.navy-commodore-from-weybridge-awarded-obe-in-queens-birthday-honours\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK1.png\" rel=\"lightbox[11865]\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK1.png 512w, http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK1-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>Commodore John Keegan OBE RN<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11867\" width=\"509\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK2.png 570w, http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JK2-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Caitlyn Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was lucky enough to serve in the Royal Navy for some 36 years between 1977 and 2013 at which time I was medically discharged with Parkinson\u2019s like symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often wonder how this choice of Career came about: I suspect strongly that it was because my Father said that I couldn\u2019t join up and I didn\u2019t know if he meant that I may not or could not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon my 18<sup>th<\/sup> Birthday I applied anyway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I arrived at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (just known a BRNC for short) along with a long list of clothing items considered essential (such as stiff collar and studs, non-metallic hangers etc) and the great adventure began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Commodore John Keegan OBE RN &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Photo by Caitlyn Wilson I was lucky enough to serve in the Royal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,139],"tags":[205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asbbulletin.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}