{"id":20294,"date":"2020-11-11T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=20294"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T23:52:58","slug":"nanaimo-veteran-reflects-on-miraculous-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nanaimo-veteran-reflects-on-miraculous-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanaimo veteran reflects on miraculous recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"formatted_content\">\n<p>A Nanaimo, B.C. veteran is spending today reflecting on his miraculous recovery after a near fatal attack in Afghanistan 14 years ago.\u00a0 Captain Trevor Greene was on a peacekeeping mission, greeting Afghani elders, when he was attacked from behind with a machete.\u00a0 His skull was shattered and it was believed he would never walk or talk again.\u00a0 But neuro scientists in B.C. and the Royal Canadian Legion provided Greene with a high-tech exoskeleton that allowed him to walk.\u00a0 Ever since, the Nanaimo veteran has been practicing brain exercises.\u00a0 In a TEDD talk last February, Greene told the audience he visualizes his victories, including his goal to climb Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20294-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-GREENE-wounded-soldier.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-GREENE-wounded-soldier.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/clip-GREENE-wounded-soldier.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greene's remarkable recovery has inspired the creation of The Legion Veterans Village, a $312 million dollar development under construction in Surrey.\u00a0 It will include a range\u00a0 of veterans services including the Innovative Center for Rehabilitation for PTSD.\u00a0 It's slated to be completed by Remembrance Day 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"push--top u-hide-on-template\">\n<div class=\"boosts metadata avatar-group--tiny push--bottom \" style=\"max-width: 100%;font-size: 0.8em;margin-bottom: 1.25em !important;background: #faf8f7;padding: 0.5rem;border-radius: 2.5rem\" data-controller=\"boosts\" data-action=\"keydown-&gt;boosts#toggleFormOnEscOrEnter\" data-boosts-adding-class=\"boosts--adding\" data-boosts-deleting-class=\"boost--deleting\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nanaimo, B.C. veteran is spending today reflecting on his miraculous recovery after a near fatal attack in Afghanistan 14 years ago.\u00a0 Captain Trevor Greene was on a peacekeeping mission, greeting Afghani elders, when he was attacked from behind with a machete.\u00a0 His skull was shattered and it was believed he would never walk or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":20298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[3017,3020,286,634,3019,2701,2699,3021,3018],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}