{"id":293,"date":"2008-05-21T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-05-21T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:51:03","slug":"burma-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Burma and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:612,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Cyclone_Nargis&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Cyclone_Nargis&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:613,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/2008_Sichuan_earthquake&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/2008_Sichuan_earthquake&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">I was talking to the Scouts last night about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclone_Nargis\" target=\"_blank\">cyclone that has recently hit Burma<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Sichuan_earthquake\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake that has struck China<\/a>. They all agreed that despite the fact they may have bad days at school and their parents can be annoying, they have very easy lives and are lucky that they will never have to suffer like the Burmese or Chinese.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I mentioned that there were problems getting aid into Burma and that the Burmese Government was being&#8230;&#8230;. and I got stuck for a polite word. Then one of the Scouts piped up &#8216;Selfish&#8217;, which I thought summed things up perfectly. This came from a 12 year old! Now if a 12 year old child can spot this, why can&#8217;t the Burmese Government?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway they all decided that we would donate \u00a315 from the subs to each of the relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Another of the Scouts came to me after the meeting to ask if we could collect door to door. Good idea, I said, but unhappily unsafe. At least it proves they were thinking of others less fortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to the Scouts last night about the cyclone that has recently hit Burma and the earthquake that has struck China. They all agreed that despite the fact they may have bad days at school and their parents can be annoying, they have very easy lives and are lucky that they will never &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burma and China&#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-293","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-4J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}