{"id":915,"date":"2009-08-12T23:32:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T09:35:20","slug":"talking-to-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/international_rover_net_mootMedium.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" align=\"left\" \/> I did something today that I\u2019ve never done before. I spoke to Scouts in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oman\" target=\"_blank\">Oman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jordan\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bali\" target=\"_blank\">Bali<\/a>! All this was courtesy of the International Rover Scout Net Moot. I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=866\" target=\"_blank\">first mentioned<\/a> this last month, when I received an email about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It was fascinating talking to these Rover Scouts from areas of the world that I have little knowledge of. They have the ability to use IRC chat or audio software. They also have a streaming video feed, so you can actually see what is going on at the Moot.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I really enjoyed chatting to these Scouts and listening to their differing stories and being impressed with their excellent English. Take a<del> look at their site<\/del> and talk to them. They will be online until midnight (GMT) Friday, so I\u2019ll be popping back.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And look, I got a certificate! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardweb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"card web\" alt=\"card web\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cardweb_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"145\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:350,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Oman&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Oman&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:351,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jordan&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Jordan&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:352,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bali&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Bali&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did something today that I\u2019ve never done before. I spoke to Scouts in Oman, Jordan and Bali! All this was courtesy of the International Rover Scout Net Moot. I first mentioned this last month, when I received an email about it. It was fascinating talking to these Rover Scouts from areas of the world &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talking to Oman&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","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-eL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}