{"id":2078,"date":"2010-11-23T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:38:17","slug":"preparing-for-sweden-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Sweden 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10112360.jpg\" alt=\"Vicky\" \/><br \/>\nVicky from Peachcroft in Abingdon is one of the few Guides chosen to attend the World Scout (and Guide) Jamboree in Sweden in July\/August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Each participant has to raise over \u00a32000, making about \u00a3100,000 in total for the 36 scouts (and guides) chosen for Oxfordshire. That means a lot of fund raising activities: car washing, jumble sales, raffles, concerts and the like.<\/p>\n<p>The cost includes travel , insurance, the stay, all the activities, and helps fund trips for scouts from places like Papua New Guinea and Armenia who couldn&#8217;t otherwise go to this world event.<\/p>\n<p>So far there have been several meet up weekends to help prepare for this once in a lifetime experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10112001.jpg\" alt=\"S M Christmas Fair\" \/><br \/>\n(Thanks to Vickie&#8217;s mum for the first picture. The second came from John, a regular blog contributor. It is taken at St Michael&#8217;s\u00a0Christmas Fair and there is a connection between the first and second picture. But can you guess what? )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicky from Peachcroft in Abingdon is one of the few Guides chosen to attend the World Scout (and Guide) Jamboree in Sweden in July\/August 2011. Each participant has to raise over \u00a32000, making about \u00a3100,000 in total for the 36 scouts (and guides) chosen for Oxfordshire. That means a lot of fund raising activities: car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}