{"id":382768,"date":"2018-10-28T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-arms-behind-the-invictus-games\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:48:29","slug":"the-arms-behind-the-invictus-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-arms-behind-the-invictus-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arms Behind the Invictus Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The origins of the Invictus Games (\u201cFor our Wounded Warriors,\u201d goes the slogan) lies in war.\u00a0 Wars that crippled and caused depression and despair. The games became a project of grand distraction and worth, a form of emotional bread for servicemen and women.\u00a0 Do not let wounds, mental or physical, deter you.\u00a0 Move to the spirit of William Ernest Henley, an amputee who, during convalescence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\">penned<\/a> those lines which speak to a Victorian stubbornness before adversity: \u201cI am the master of my fate;\/I am the captain of my soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, was supposedly inspired by a trip to the United States in 2013 by how, as the Invictus Games Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-10-27\/invictus-games-closing-ceremony-prince-harry-meghan-markle\/10437330\">explains<\/a>, \u201csport can help physically, psychologically and socially those suffering from injuries and illness.\u201d\u00a0 The games came into being the next year, embodying \u201cthe fighting spirit of wounded, injured and sick Service personnel and personifies what these tenacious men and women and achieve post injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they opened in Sydney, something rather troubling lurked in the undergrowth of those keen to promote the games.\u00a0 This was an occasion for the sponsors to hop on in numbers, to insist on that piffle called values.\u00a0 \u201cWe are excited,\u201d goes the organisers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invictusgames2018.org\/community-support\/corporate-partners\/\">statement<\/a>, \u201cto be on the journey to our Games with the fantastic support of our family of Invictus Games partners.\u00a0 Their support not only helps us deliver a great Games, but also builds initiatives that inspire connected,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/the-arms-behind-the-invictus-games\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of the Invictus Games (\u201cFor our Wounded Warriors,\u201d goes the slogan) lies in war.\u00a0 Wars that crippled and caused depression and despair. The games became a project of grand distraction and worth, a form of emotional bread for servicemen and women.\u00a0 Do not let wounds, mental or physical, deter you.\u00a0 Move to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}