{"id":352594,"date":"2026-01-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=903166"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:00:00","slug":"birmingham-teenager-becomes-hs2s-2000th-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=352594","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham teenager becomes HS2\u2019s 2,000th apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-1278x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mohammed Sharif aged 19, HS2&#039;s 2000th apprentice. \/\/ Credit: HS2 Ltd.\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-1278x720.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mohammed-Sharif-19-HS2s-2000th-apprentice_cropped.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A Birmingham teenager has just become the 2,000th apprentice to be recruited by HS2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birmingham teenager has just become the 2,000th apprentice to be recruited by HS2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406,1089,343,2309,47],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-352594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-hs2","category-infrastructure","category-network","category-rail-news","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352595,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352594\/revisions\/352595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}