{"id":4704,"date":"2011-11-24T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2011-11-24T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T15:35:10","slug":"2011-11-19-up-up-and-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4704","title":{"rendered":"2011-11-19 &#8211; Up, Up and Away for Gareth&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/ex-as-aiac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4705\" title=\"ex-as-aiac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/ex-as-aiac.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Explorer Scout Gareth Goes Solo<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Gareth Furlong of the 5th Dartford Scout group&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?page_id=36\" target=\"_blank\">Johnston Explorers<\/a>\u00a0took to the air in his first and second solo glider flights.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gareth has been on a\u00a0scholarship programme\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kent-gliding-club.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Gliding Club<\/a> in Ashford for a couple of years, where his work has been rewarded with\u00a0flight time.\u00a0 Despite being a capable glider pilot with many hours of flight time behind him, there has always been someone else in the cockpit, so\u00a0we can only imagine the look on his face when he was told that\u00a0&#8220;today was the day&#8221; and the adrenaline surge\u00a0he must have experienced knowing that he was on his own for the first time\u00a0 &#8211; What a rush!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well done Gareth.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/HPIM0471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4716\" title=\"HPIM0471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/HPIM0471.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hpim0472-Cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4710\" title=\"Hpim0472-Cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hpim0472-Cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explorer Scout Gareth Goes Solo Today, Gareth Furlong of the 5th Dartford Scout group&#8217;s Johnston Explorers\u00a0took to the air in his first and second solo glider flights.\u00a0\u00a0 Gareth has been on a\u00a0scholarship programme\u00a0at the\u00a0Kent Gliding Club in Ashford for a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/?p=4704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorer-blog","category-scoutnews","category-scout-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.5thdartfordscouts.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}