{"id":111717,"date":"2017-11-28T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:18","slug":"the-army-sportsman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-army-sportsman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Army Sportsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I love this little description in a pre-war book; it conjures up an aroma of a bygone age and values. It reminds me of the excellent 1944 film \u2018This Happy Breed\u2019 which captured all that was essentially English in the pre-war era.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mWr3CG0M7rg\/T5ou92juDdI\/AAAAAAAABFg\/hd0P1ksaRw8\/s1600\/cowardlean4big.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"230\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/cowardlean4big-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111718\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">According to Major J.T. Gorman in his 1939 book \u2018The Army of Today,\u2019 the definition of an army sportsman is one who:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Plays the game for the game\u2019s sake<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Plays for his side and not for himself<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Is a good winner and good loser \u2013 modest in victory, generous in defeat<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Accepts all decisions in a proper spirit<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Is Chivalrous towards a defeated opponent<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Is unselfish and always ready to help others to become proficient.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this little description in a pre-war book; it conjures up an aroma of a bygone age and values. It reminds me of the excellent 1944 film \u2018This Happy Breed\u2019 which captured all that was essentially English in the pre-war era. According to Major J.T. Gorman in his 1939 book \u2018The Army of Today,\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}