{"id":18483,"date":"2013-03-05T00:41:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/03\/05\/britains-tallest-policeman-guards-queen-at-hospital\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T00:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:41:24","slug":"britains-tallest-policeman-guards-queen-at-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/03\/05\/britains-tallest-policeman-guards-queen-at-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s tallest policeman guards Queen at hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/RRJARJZXIQOLIZPPUHPI.jpg>Britain\u2019s tallest policeman is one of the officers stationed outside King Edward VII hospital where the Queen is recovering from gastroenteritis.<\/p>\n<p>PC Anthony Wallyn, who stands at 7 feet 2 inches (2.19 metres), has been standing guard outside the hospital with his colleague PC Tony Thirch who, at 5 feet 6 inches (1.7 metres), is the smallest officer in the Metropolitan police\u2019s Westminster borough support unit.<\/p>\n<p>The colleagues are known as \u2018Big Tone\u2019 and \u2018Little Tone\u2019, reports The Guardian. Wallyn, who has size 17 feet, joined the police force four years ago and has to have his uniform custom-made to fit his tall frame.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted he is used to receiving attention for his height, saying: \u201cI get 100 to 500 requests for a photo each day. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like being famous but without the money. It\u2019s happened every day of my life. If it didn\u2019t happen I would be worried.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Queen was admitted to hospital yesterday (March 3) \u201cas a precaution\u201d after suffering from a stomach bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s tallest policeman is one of the officers stationed outside King Edward VII hospital where the Queen is recovering from gastroenteritis. PC Anthony Wallyn, who stands at 7 feet 2 inches (2.19 metres), has been standing guard outside the hospital with his colleague PC Tony Thirch who, at 5 feet 6 inches (1.7 metres), is [&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-18483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483","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=18483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}