{"id":119,"date":"2007-02-20T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2007-02-20T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T22:30:40","slug":"streams-are-cold-and-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Streams are cold. And wet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a day off work today to help with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solentyouthaction.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Solent Youth Action\">Solent Youth Action<\/a> activity (a chance to use my renewed <a href=\"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=99\" title=\"blog post: 'How to drive a minibus'\" target=\"_blank\">MIDAS certificate<\/a>! \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n<p>We took a group of 11-13 year old kids for a day of stream clearing &#8211; pulling out rubbish, clearing weeds, and cutting back overgrown plants. It&#8217;s half-term week so it was an all-day activity. They did a great job &#8211; it&#8217;s impressive what a group of enthusiastic people standing up to their thighs in cold water can do!<\/p>\n<p>Today was a <a href=\"http:\/\/solentyouthaction.org.uk\/takeaction.html\" title=\"Solent Youth Action: Take Action\" target=\"_blank\">Taster Day<\/a> &#8211; a chance to introduce some young people to volunteering. As the name suggests, Taster Days offer a variety of different activities that young people can try out without needing any long-term commitment. If they enjoy it to want to do more, they get help finding similar activities to do in the future. If not, they can always try something else. <\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day they all seemed to have enjoyed it, and hopefully will think of &#8220;volunteering&#8221; as something fun that they&#8217;ll want to do again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a day off work today to help with a Solent Youth Action activity (a chance to use my renewed MIDAS certificate! \ud83d\ude09 ). We took a group of 11-13 year old kids for a day of stream clearing &#8211; pulling out rubbish, clearing weeds, and cutting back overgrown plants. It&#8217;s half-term week so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}