{"id":92932,"date":"2024-08-18T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92932"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:46:59","slug":"dont-drink-and-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/08\/18\/dont-drink-and-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Drink and Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Last week, <strong>Tom Daley <\/strong>announced that this would not only be his last competitive appearance in an <em>Olympic Games <\/em>(it is his fifth), but he was also hanging up the ol\u2019 <em>Speedos<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s hard to talk about.&nbsp; It\u2019s very hard to talk about.&nbsp; But you have to hang it up sometime.&nbsp; I\u2019m very proud.\u201d&nbsp; He\u2019s particularly proud to have shared the experience with his family.&nbsp; In fact, it was his son <strong>Robbie <\/strong>who inspired him to compete this time around.&nbsp; Robbie, who is 6, said, \u201cI want to see you dive at the <em>Olympics<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp; Ask and you shall receive.&nbsp; And with a silver medal, to boot!<\/p>\n<p>Daley did leave us with an important message.&nbsp; In a new public service announcement, he\u2019s walking poolside wearing a robe and carrying a cocktail, as one does.&nbsp; He drops the robe to reveal he\u2019s wearing a red crocheted <em>Speedo <\/em>(his own design \u2013 he\u2019s a whiz with a needle).&nbsp; He mounts the board \u2013 I think that\u2019s the correct verb \u2013 and we see a message at the bottom of the pool: \u201c1 in 4 UK drowning involve alcohol.\u201d&nbsp; On his bum is the message of the video: \u201cDon\u2019t Drink and Dive\u201d.&nbsp; Sponsored by <em>Malibu Rum UK<\/em>, naturally.&nbsp; While there was merchandise for sale, don\u2019t bother looking \u2013 everything\u2019s sold out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Tom Daley announced that this would not only be his last competitive appearance in an Olympic Games (it is his fifth), but he was also hanging up the ol\u2019 Speedos.&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s hard to talk about.&nbsp; It\u2019s very hard to talk about.&nbsp; But you have to hang it up sometime.&nbsp; I\u2019m very proud.\u201d&nbsp; He\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92941,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92932\/revisions\/92941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}