{"id":19802,"date":"2019-03-13T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19802"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:46:59","slug":"i-felt-my-life-was-over-lenny-royal-on-the-horror-of-being-deliberately-infected-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/i-felt-my-life-was-over-lenny-royal-on-the-horror-of-being-deliberately-infected-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I felt my life was over&#8217;: Lenny Royal on the horror of being deliberately infected with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/39315de89f9b681e2a1d0eafb3b479da87a0d74d\/0_89_4256_2554\/master\/4256.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ee5177b692ff493763a7e1acf0b35aad\" alt=\"Lenny Royal portrait\" width=\"508\" height=\"305\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"inline-triangle inline-icon hide-until-tablet\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2018There was no voice for any of the victims\u2019 &#8230; Lenny Royal. Photograph: Jill Mead\/The Guardian<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no guide book for how to deal with this,\u201d says Lenny Royal on his life since being maliciously infected with HIV. Last year his attacker,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/may\/04\/daryll-rowe-jailed-for-deliberately-trying-to-spread-hiv-in-scotland\">Daryll Rowe<\/a>, became the first person to be jailed for using his illness as a weapon by deliberately infecting Royal and four other men with the virus, and exposing five others to it.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/mar\/13\/daryll-rowe-hiv-deliberately-infect-lenny-royal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2018There was no voice for any of the victims\u2019 &#8230; Lenny Royal. Photograph: Jill Mead\/The Guardian There\u2019s no guide book for how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}