{"id":20890,"date":"2025-07-24T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20890\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:35:17","slug":"princess-anne-opens-garden-in-sheffield-spinal-injuries-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20890\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne opens garden in Sheffield spinal injuries unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham-born actor George Robinson, an appeal ambassador for the project, called the garden &#8220;incredible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was a patient at the spinal injuries unit for almost eight months in 2015, after suffering a severe spinal injury during a game of rugby when he was 17, which left him quadriplegic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;When you spend so much time in hospital, you&#8217;re focused on your physical rehabilitation, but as the days go by, you realise you also need that mental rehabilitation &#8211; sometimes that clinical environment isn&#8217;t the best place for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can feel separated from the world, but a garden connects you back to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the space would give patients a &#8220;sense of purpose&#8221; by taking part in activities such as gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham-born actor George Robinson, an appeal ambassador for the project, called the garden &#8220;incredible&#8221;. He was a patient&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-20890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}