{"id":353,"date":"2018-04-12T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yaf.xqj.mybluehost.me\/?p=353"},"modified":"2018-04-08T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:45:48","slug":"scouting-is-bouncing-back-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/12\/scouting-is-bouncing-back-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting is bouncing back in&#8230; Iraq!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news from the global scouting world: Scouting in Iraq is bouncing back strongly with 25,000 male and female members. Iraq originally joined World Scouting in 1914 &#8211; that&#8217;s only <strong>4 years<\/strong> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=when+was+bsa+founded\">BSA was founded in the USA<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>[su_quote cite=&#8221;The New Arab&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2018\/4\/3\/iraq-scouts-make-comeback-in-former-is-bastion-mosul&#8221;]But in 1999, the world scout body evicted the Iraqi chapter because it was allegedly being used by former dictator Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime for military training. But the Iraqi scouts kept operating. In 2017, they were readmitted into the international scouting world and have since grown to 25,000 members across the country.[\/su_quote]<\/p>\n<p>Play the short video below to learn a bit more<\/p>\n<p>[twitter_video id=&#8221;982261277853605890&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news from the global scouting world: Scouting in Iraq is bouncing back strongly with 25,000 male and female members. Iraq originally joined World Scouting in 1914 &#8211; that&#8217;s only 4 years after BSA was founded in the USA! [su_quote cite=&#8221;The New Arab&#8221; url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2018\/4\/3\/iraq-scouts-make-comeback-in-former-is-bastion-mosul&#8221;]But in 1999, the world scout body evicted the Iraqi chapter because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/12\/scouting-is-bouncing-back-in-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scouting is bouncing back in&#8230; Iraq!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-worldwide"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troop260.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}