{"id":87999,"date":"2026-04-20T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87999"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:22:39","slug":"87999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/87999\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They told me he was dead&#8217;: Children born near army base learn truth about UK soldier dads"},"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><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/3658\/live\/a0adda50-396e-11f1-8606-05fe34b06e1b.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy has dark hair tied back in braids and is wearing a white top with beige walls and a window in the background \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">&#8220;Edward&#8221;, a nine-year old Kenyan boy, has always been aware his father worked for the British military. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Children-born-near-army-base-learn-truth-about-UK-soldier-dads-2030817\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>&nbsp; &#8220;Edward&#8221;, a nine-year old Kenyan boy, has always been aware his father worked for the British military. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-relationships"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Yvonne-Kenya.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87999","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=87999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88002,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87999\/revisions\/88002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}