{"id":57743,"date":"2019-01-18T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57743"},"modified":"2019-01-18T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T10:30:20","slug":"meet-the-70-year-old-who-spent-the-whole-of-2018-cleaning-trash-off-52-english-beaches-in-her-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/01\/18\/meet-the-70-year-old-who-spent-the-whole-of-2018-cleaning-trash-off-52-english-beaches-in-her-spare-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 70-year-old who spent the whole of 2018 cleaning trash off 52 English beaches in her spare time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>70-year-old Englishwoman Pat Smith is someone each of us can take inspiration from. The elderly lady spent the entire last year picking up plastic trash from\u00a0Devon and Cornwall\u2019s beautiful beaches in her spare time. In fact, doing that was her 2018 New Year&#8217;s resolution!<\/p>\n<p>Every week, armed with\u00a0bin bags, rubber gloves and a litter picker, she traveled to different beaches in England and<span style=\"line-height: 1.8\">\u00a0even spent her Christmas day picking up plastic bottles and fishing gear on Trevone Beach. And\u00a0the married mother-of-two has no intention of stopping her campaign just because the year is over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing 52 beach cleans in 2018 was my New Year\u2019s Resolution and it\u2019s finally done,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI won\u2019t stop, as our beaches need me.\u00a0I\u2019m driven to try and protect our living planet for my children and grandchildren and I will continue to do everything in my power to achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/grandmother-spent-year-cleaning-plastic-off-52-english-beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/grandmother-spent-year-cleaning-plastic-off-52-english-beaches\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70-year-old Englishwoman Pat Smith is someone each of us can take inspiration from. The elderly lady spent the entire last year picking up plastic trash from\u00a0Devon and Cornwall\u2019s beautiful beaches in her spare time. In fact, doing that was her 2018 New Year&#8217;s resolution! Every week, armed with\u00a0bin bags, rubber gloves and a litter picker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}