{"id":422,"date":"2014-02-06T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/?p=422"},"modified":"2014-02-06T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T16:31:10","slug":"why-sould-we-remember-walter-tull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/herne-bay-high-school\/why-sould-we-remember-walter-tull\/","title":{"rendered":"Why sould we Remember Walter Tull?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Millatry-cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Millatry-cross.jpg\" alt=\"Millatry cross\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-426\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Walter-Tull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Walter-Tull.jpg\" alt=\"Walter Tull\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-425\" \/><\/a>We should remember Walter Tull because of his outstanding efforts in World War One which got him recommend for the Military cross. He led his men on dangerous missions behind enemy lines and return without loss or injury. He sacrificed his life for the British Government.<\/p>\n<p>He was the first black man to become an officer because military law forbade man not of \u2018pure European descent\u2019. Walter Tull was also Britain\u2019s first black professional football player.<\/p>\n<p>He shows that you can achieve so much in one life time and it doesn\u2019t matter about your differences.<br \/>\nBy Tess Walker<br \/>\nAged 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should remember Walter Tull because of his outstanding efforts in World War One which got him recommend for the Military cross. He led his men on dangerous missions behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.childrensfootballalliance.com\/football-and-peace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}