{"id":1140,"date":"2024-08-03T14:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:20:14","slug":"1140-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/1140-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee (Tank) Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be-924x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Tank\" class=\"wp-image-1141\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be-924x1024.jpeg 924w, https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be-271x300.jpeg 271w, https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be-768x851.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be-1387x1536.jpeg 1387w, https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7766_65166df6be.jpeg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Branch has been informed of the sudden and sad passing of our friend, and Branch Vice Chairman, Lee \u201cTank\u201d Gardner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tank passed away yesterday morning from a heart attack whilst getting on train in Preston as he was going to a training course at Hague House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Chairman said;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This has got to be one of the hardest things I have had to do since becoming your Branch Chairman, and to be honest, there are no words that come even close to expressing my feelings at this moment in time.<br>After long hours trying to put my feelings down on paper, I have decided that now is not the time for any epitaphs, that can be done later when the news isn\u2019t so raw.<br>As I write this short, but heart felt message, I cannot express my sorrow that goes out to Kate and Josh on their loss, and to whom I pass my sincerest condolences at this moment in time.<br>Mate you will be missed by more people than you could ever have thought possible, so for now all I can say is RIP Lee \u201cTank\u201d Gardner&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thoughts and prayers of the Branch go out to Tank&#8217;s family, especially his wife Kate and son Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Branch has been informed of the sudden and sad passing of our friend, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rblr.org.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}