{"id":226,"date":"2008-01-12T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=226"},"modified":"2008-01-12T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T16:31:58","slug":"new-badges-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"New Badges Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:139,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260415101804\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 04:19:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 04:19:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:661,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/uk\\\/7183888.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/7183888.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:662,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hurricane_lamp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260404113340\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hurricane_lamp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:58:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:58:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Seems that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scout Association<\/a> are having another publicity blitz with the launching of the new proficiency badges. From what I&#8217;ve read in the media and on various web sites (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7183888.stm\" target=\"_blank\">see the BBC&#8217;s coverage here<\/a>), the coverage is still positive. Of course there are those that always make the snide remarks, but we have to put up with such ill informed journalists.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Looks like they&#8217;re trying to cover a whole range of activities and yet keep all the traditional stuff. That&#8217;s what keeps the kids interested folks!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Interestingly enough, I was showing our Scouts how to use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_lamp\" target=\"_blank\">hurricane lamps<\/a> the other day and they sat there thoroughly interested. Now I&#8217;d like to say that I was really engaging and interesting, but it may have had something to do with setting light to things!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that the Scout Association are having another publicity blitz with the launching of the new proficiency badges. From what I&#8217;ve read in the media and on various web sites (see the BBC&#8217;s coverage here), the coverage is still positive. Of course there are those that always make the snide remarks, but we have to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Badges Announced&#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":[25],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-3E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}