{"id":3123,"date":"2025-01-23T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:27:07","slug":"student-stories-dan-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Student Stories: Dan Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"3 minutes, 5 seconds we do want is opportunity and I think\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;I think <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">that the opportunity to study for a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">degree and potentially begin a brand new <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">career is something <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">so profound&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the video below disabled veteran Dan Richards shares how studying for a BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching at The Open University has given him an opportunity to improve his mental health and begin a new career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My story: Dan Richards\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b24_Ddt49G8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think that the opportunity to study for a degree and potentially begin a brand new career is something so profound&#8221; In the video below disabled veteran Dan Richards shares how studying for a BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching at The Open University has given him an opportunity to improve his mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}