{"id":138393,"date":"2012-08-09T21:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/08\/09\/olympic-diver-wants-to-win-for-late-father\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:39:05","slug":"olympic-diver-wants-to-win-for-late-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/09\/olympic-diver-wants-to-win-for-late-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic diver wants to win for late father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/YOGGTPHXPFFXWTRCKAXE.jpg>Tom Daley\u2019s mum believes that losing his dad has made the Olympic swimmer a very \u2018grown-up\u2019 teenager.<br \/>\nRob Daley passed away in May 2011 aged 40 after a battle with brain cancer and Debbie Daley has noticed a difference in 18-year-old Tom\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Losing his father has made Tom mature faster than ever,\u2019 says Debbie, 41. \u2018He is determined and dedicated and he has reached out to Rob\u2019s memory for inspiration\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Seeing him compete at a home Games was Rob\u2019s heart\u2019s desire, Tom knows that.\u2019 Tom called Rob his \u2018best friend, sounding board, taxi driver and biggest champion\u2019 and now Debbie aims to fill her late husband\u2019s supportive role by simply encouraging Olympic star Tom to do his best.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Personally, I have no expectations of my son,\u2019 Debbie tells The Mail On Sunday. \u2018I ask only that he loves what he does. The minute he stops loving it, he must stop doing it.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Daley\u2019s mum believes that losing his dad has made the Olympic swimmer a very \u2018grown-up\u2019 teenager. Rob Daley passed away in May 2011 aged 40 after a battle with brain cancer and Debbie Daley has noticed a difference in 18-year-old Tom\u2019s personality. \u2018Losing his father has made Tom mature faster than ever,\u2019 says Debbie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}