{"id":512,"date":"2008-11-14T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:59:16","slug":"barack-obama-was-a-cub-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama was a (Cub) Scout!"},"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;:507,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/news_view.php?news_id=129&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/news_view.php?news_id=129&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:275,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouting.org&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;:508,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thescoutmasterminute.com\\\/2008\\\/07\\\/in-case-you-have-not-heard.html&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;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">I&#8217;ve just been on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Scout Association&#8217;s web site<\/a> to look up some information on something I&#8217;m doing this weekend and I decided while I was there to look at the news section. In there was this article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/news_view.php?news_id=129\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama being a Scout<\/a> when he lived in Indonesia. From his age I guess he must have actually been a Cub Scout however.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So I thought the Boy Scouts of America must be making a big thing of this fact. So I went to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouting.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a> and found nothing! In fact the last news item they had was from September.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I must admit I found this quite strange. The SA are always very good at positive publicity and are quick to point out &#8216;famous&#8217; ex Scouts. I also know the BSA are extremely proud to say that of the 12 men to walk on the moon, 11 were Scouts!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So are American Scouts aware that their next Leader was a Cub Scout? Or in fact George W Bush was a Cub Scout as well (I didn&#8217;t until a few minutes ago!)?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When Scoutmaster Jerry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescoutmasterminute.com\/2008\/07\/in-case-you-have-not-heard.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote this on his blog<\/a> or Scoutmaster Steve started the &#8216;Buttons for President&#8217; campaign, I wonder if they knew? I also wonder if Mr. Obama can live up to those values? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been on the Scout Association&#8217;s web site to look up some information on something I&#8217;m doing this weekend and I decided while I was there to look at the news section. In there was this article about Barack Obama being a Scout when he lived in Indonesia. From his age I guess he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barack Obama was a (Cub) Scout!&#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":[3,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-8g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}