{"id":518,"date":"2008-11-19T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=518"},"modified":"2008-11-19T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T12:08:25","slug":"112-year-old-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"112 Year Old Scout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:366,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Henry_Allingham&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Henry_Allingham&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:500,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/news_view.php?news_id=132&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/news_view.php?news_id=132&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:501,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/sussex\\\/7735936.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/england\\\/sussex\\\/7735936.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\">I&#8217;ve just read that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Allingham\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Allingham<\/a>, the oldest man in the UK and Europe and the oldest survivor of the First World War, has been invested as a Scout with the 6th Brighton Group last weekend!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"204\" alt=\"IMG_1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/img-1.jpg\" width=\"194\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Photo lifted from the SA&#8217;s website<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He became a Scout 100 years ago but had to leave after 6 weeks as his mother could not afford to buy the uniform! You can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/news_view.php?news_id=132\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/sussex\/7735936.stm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I hope the Scouts get to talk to this remarkable man who credits his longevity to &#8211; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women\u2014and a good sense of humour!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"> He certainly is an asset to his new Group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read that Henry Allingham, the oldest man in the UK and Europe and the oldest survivor of the First World War, has been invested as a Scout with the 6th Brighton Group last weekend! Photo lifted from the SA&#8217;s website He became a Scout 100 years ago but had to leave after 6 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;112 Year Old 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":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-518","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-8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}