{"id":269588,"date":"2025-11-18T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:42:08","slug":"tom-hanks-cast-away-spurs-on-atlantic-rower-in-40k-charity-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/269588\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks&#8217; Cast Away spurs on Atlantic rower in \u00a340k charity trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rower crossing the Atlantic for charity with a university friend has turned to Tom Hanks&#8217; Cast Away for tips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olly Rathbone and George Attfield, who met at Nottingham Trent University playing rugby, have been training for the 3,000 mile journey for the last three years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair are setting off on 12 December, from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, and heading across the pond to Antigua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I may have watched Cast Away about seven times so I can learn from Tom Hanks,&#8221; Olly, from Sevenoaks, in Kent, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rower crossing the Atlantic for charity with a university friend has turned to Tom Hanks&#8217; Cast Away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-269588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269588","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=269588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}