{"id":275925,"date":"2025-11-11T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:59:08","slug":"ex-paratrooper-starts-800-mile-challenge-for-mens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/275925\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-paratrooper starts 800-mile challenge for men&#8217;s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Discussing his weighted vest, Mr Heron said: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be pretty heavy but obviously in the military you do a lot of weighted runs, so I&#8217;m kind of used to the weighted run itself but not to this extreme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to show everyone that it is okay to carry that hidden weight that so many men carry without telling anyone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You just need to talk, you need to communicate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Heron also said during his challenge he would be &#8220;having a lot of demons&#8221; telling him to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m definitely going to have a lot of mental health battles but again, I think the reason I&#8217;m doing it is going to push me through it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discussing his weighted vest, Mr Heron said: &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be pretty heavy but obviously in the military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-275925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}