{"id":25,"date":"2006-12-04T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldshebbearian\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:17:52","slug":"dennis-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fine sportsman, Dennis Guy was a pupil at Shebbear from 1936-39 and was awarded his colours for both rugby and cricket. In his last term he was runner-up for the Victor Ludorum sports trophy. There are some who say he was the best fast bowler the 1st X1 ever had. He also had a fine bass voice, was a leading member of the choir and was much in demand for solo performances in choral works at Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n<p>He served in the army during the Second World War before returning to manage a successful family bakery business in Exbourne.<\/p>\n<p>He kept up his sporting and other interests long after leaving Shebbear, playing cricket and football for Okehampton and Exbourne.<\/p>\n<p>A widower, he is survived by a son Jonathan and a daughter Rosemary. He died in hospital at Honiton on November 9, 2006, aged 85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine sportsman, Dennis Guy was a pupil at Shebbear from 1936-39 and was awarded his colours for both rugby and cricket. In his last term he was runner-up for the Victor Ludorum sports trophy. There are some who say he was the best fast bowler the 1st X1 ever had. He also had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldshebbearian.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}