{"id":7196,"date":"2008-09-17T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/09\/17\/william-puts-full-time-royal-work-on-hold-to-become-rescue-pilot\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:51:16","slug":"william-puts-full-time-royal-work-on-hold-to-become-rescue-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/09\/17\/william-puts-full-time-royal-work-on-hold-to-become-rescue-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"William puts full-time royal work on hold to become rescue pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Many girls dream of being rescued by a handsome prince. Now it may come true \u2013 if they\u2019re hillwalking and get lost. When the helicopter comes to help, it could be none other than action-man royal Prince William behind the controls after the 26-year-old revealed he is to become a full-time pilot with the RAF&#8217;s elite Search And Rescue Force.<br \/>\nMonday&#8217;s surprise announcement ends speculation that the Household Cavalry officer would leave the military next year to become a full-time working royal. His decision means that a engagement to sweetheart Kate Middleton is also probably some way off now.<br \/>\nThe 18-month course to prepare him for the hazardous job begins in January, followed by a further 30-month minimum attachment to SARF. Once trained to pilot Sea King helicopters, the second-in-line to the British throne will fly missions such as rescuing sailors in trouble and airlifting people from flood areas.<br \/>\nWilliam, 26, was bitten by the flying bug during an attachment with the RAF earlier this year. The Prince said he wanted to &#8220;build on the experience and training I have received to serve operationally \u2013 especially because, for good reasons, I was not able to deploy to Afghanistan this year with my squadron&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many girls dream of being rescued by a handsome prince. Now it may come true \u2013 if they\u2019re hillwalking and get lost. When the helicopter comes to help, it could be none other than action-man royal Prince William behind the controls after the 26-year-old revealed he is to become a full-time pilot with the RAF&#8217;s [&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-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","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=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}