{"id":72598,"date":"2017-06-07T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72598"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:27:45","slug":"roy-larner-the-lion-of-london-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72598","title":{"rendered":"Roy Larner, The Lion of London Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72599\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roy-Larner-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roy-Larner-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roy-Larner-215x333.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roy-Larner.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/3731817\/defiant-battlecry-of-hero-footie-fan-hailed-the-lion-of-london-bridge-after-single-handedly-fighting-machete-terror-trio-with-bare-fists\/\">UK&#8217;s Sun<\/a> tells the story of Roy Larner, who is being called &#8220;The Lion of London Bridge&#8221; for his stand against terrorists in the opening moments of the terrorist attack the other day;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has now been hailed the Lion of London Bridge, a nod to his club\u2019s Lions nickname \u2013 with his friends since delivering him a tongue in cheek present of a \u201cLearn to Run\u201d book \u2013 a nod to the brave man\u2019s refusal to hide from the knife-wielding terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Roy was knifed eight times before the jihadis fled the Black &#038; Blue restaurant and bar.<\/p>\n<p>He fearlessly shouted back and fought them single-handedly \u2014 saving countless lives as he gave staff and other drinkers time to escape.<\/p>\n<p>He told The Sun from hospital: \u201cThey had these long knives and started shouting about Allah. Then it was, \u2018Islam, Islam, Islam\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike an idiot I shouted back at them. I thought, \u2018I need to take the p*** out of these b******s\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took a few steps towards them and said, \u2018F*** you, I\u2019m Millwall\u2019. So they started attacking me.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think of my safety at the time. I\u2019d had four or five pints \u2014 nothing major.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Sun tells the story of Roy Larner, who is being called &#8220;The Lion of &hellip; <a title=\"Roy Larner, The Lion of London Bridge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72598\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roy Larner, The Lion of London Bridge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}