{"id":1450,"date":"2018-10-22T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:38:33","slug":"prince-harry-duke-of-sussex-opens-the-invictus-games-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex) opens the Invictus Games in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad374b391200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince harry invistus games\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad374b391200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad374b391200c-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Prince harry invistus games\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great short speech by the newly married Prince and father. Sent to us by Brigid&#39;s niece June from Australia, where the games are being held.&#0160; -&#0160; the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invictus_Games\">Invictus Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&quot;The <strong>Invictus Games<\/strong> is an international adaptive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-sport_event\" title=\"Multi-sport event\">multi-sport event<\/a>, created by <a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Harry\" title=\"Prince Harry\">Prince Harry<\/a>, in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans take part in sports including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheelchair_basketball\" title=\"Wheelchair basketball\">wheelchair basketball<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sitting_volleyball\" title=\"Sitting volleyball\">sitting volleyball<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indoor_rower\" title=\"Indoor rower\">indoor rowing<\/a>.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-Independent-2014-03-06_1-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invictus_Games#cite_note-Independent-2014-03-06-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Named after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Roman_deities#Invictus\" title=\"List of Roman deities\">Invictus<\/a>, Latin for &quot;unconquered&quot; or &quot;undefeated&quot;, the event was inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warrior_Games\" title=\"Warrior Games\">Warrior Games<\/a>, a similar event held in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68ehGf73c90\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great short speech by the newly married Prince and father. Sent to us by Brigid&#39;s niece June from Australia, where the games are being held.&#0160; -&#0160; the Invictus Games &quot;The Invictus Games is an international adaptive multi-sport event, created by Prince Harry, in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}