{"id":81,"date":"2018-11-25T04:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T03:36:43","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boy Scout movement in New Zealand began in 1908, the same year in which General (later, Lord) Baden-Powell launched the movement in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The St Heliers\/Glendowie Scout Troop started soon after in 1912.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyon Brookfield was one of the first Scout Masters.&nbsp; His contribution is recognised at the Brookfield memorial (next to the flag pole at the start of St Helliers Bay Road).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumour has it that our scarves are based on the green fields of Glendowie and the yellow beach of St Heliers.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our badge depicts Rangitoto in the background as that is our view from St Heliers with pohutukawa fringing the shore.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us The Boy Scout movement in New Zealand began in 1908, the same year in which General (later, Lord) Baden-Powell launched the movement in the United Kingdom. The St Heliers\/Glendowie Scout Troop started soon after in 1912.&nbsp; Guyon Brookfield was one of the first Scout Masters.&nbsp; His contribution is recognised at the Brookfield memorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stheliersglendowiescouts.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}