{"id":1092,"date":"2010-03-18T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:36:07","slug":"harrods-stops-scouts-wearing-neckerchiefs-and-woggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"Harrods Stops Scouts Wearing Neckerchiefs and Woggles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:254,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Mohamed_Al-Fayed&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260415125534\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Mohamed_Al-Fayed&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Mohamed_Al-Fayed&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:255,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.1stbordonscouts.org.uk\\\/explorers.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:256,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Harrods&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Harrods&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:257,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/7559647.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/england\\\/7559647.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:258,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/hampshire\\\/8574009.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231030090504\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/hampshire\\\/8574009.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/england\\\/hampshire\\\/8574009.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Bit of an own goal there <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohamed_Al-Fayed\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Al-Fayed<\/a>! It appears that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1stbordonscouts.org.uk\/explorers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Group of Explorer Scouts<\/a> who were in London were not allowed into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harrods\" target=\"_blank\">Harrods<\/a> as they were wearing their neckerchiefs! They were asked to remove them before they could enter, but to the Explorer\u2019s credit they said no as it is a part of their uniform!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It seems that Harrods does have a bit of a history with this kind of thing, they <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/7559647.stm\" target=\"_blank\">banned some Guides<\/a> a couple of years ago. You can read about the story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/hampshire\/8574009.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Seems like Harrods are furiously backtracking now and apologising \u2018unreservedly\u2019!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Still, it\u2019s great to read one of the Leaders saying <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">To my horror they said we were going to have to take off our neckers and woggles. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I said, &#8216;definitely not&#8217;, I&#8217;m a Scout and it&#8217;s part of my identity. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of an own goal there Mr. Al-Fayed! It appears that a Group of Explorer Scouts who were in London were not allowed into Harrods as they were wearing their neckerchiefs! They were asked to remove them before they could enter, but to the Explorer\u2019s credit they said no as it is a part of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=1092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harrods Stops Scouts Wearing Neckerchiefs and Woggles!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-hC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}