{"id":155954,"date":"2015-05-06T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/06\/imkatandimawesome-cumberdoom-papermonocle\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:35:36","slug":"imkatandimawesome-cumberdoom-papermonocle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/06\/imkatandimawesome-cumberdoom-papermonocle\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imkatandimawesome.tumblr.com\/post\/115066283629\/cumberdoom-papermonocle-things-i-learnt\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">imkatandimawesome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cumberdoom.tumblr.com\/post\/98893083984\/papermonocle-things-i-learnt-today-during-ww1\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">cumberdoom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papermonocle.tumblr.com\/post\/97677322847\/things-i-learnt-today-during-ww1-mi5-used-girl\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">papermonocle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Things I learnt today:<\/b>\u00a0During WW1, MI5 used Girl Guides to send secret messages. They used Girl Guides because they quickly found that Boy Scouts<i> couldn\u2019t be trusted and were\u2019t efficient enough.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk\/system\/files\/PDF_girl_guides_and_mi5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">At\u00a0the\u00a0start\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0war\u00a0Boy\u00a0Scouts\u00a0were\u00a0also\u00a0used.\u00a0But\u00a0it\u00a0quickly\u00a0became\u00a0clear\u00a0that\u00a0Girl\u00a0Guides\u00a0were\u00a0more\u00a0efficient\u00a0because\u00a0they\u00a0were\u00a0less\u00a0boisterous\u00a0and\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburghs-war.ed.ac.uk\/system\/files\/PDF_girl_guides_and_mi5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">talkative.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><b>the boy scouts were too gossipy, so they used girl guides as spies instead<\/b><\/i><b>\u00a0<\/b>this is probably the best day of my life<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t be the only unsurprised person here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>imkatandimawesome: cumberdoom: papermonocle: Things I learnt today:\u00a0During WW1, MI5 used Girl Guides to send secret messages. They used Girl Guides because they quickly found that Boy Scouts couldn\u2019t be trusted and were\u2019t efficient enough. \u201cAt\u00a0the\u00a0start\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0war\u00a0Boy\u00a0Scouts\u00a0were\u00a0also\u00a0used.\u00a0But\u00a0it\u00a0quickly\u00a0became\u00a0clear\u00a0that\u00a0Girl\u00a0Guides\u00a0were\u00a0more\u00a0efficient\u00a0because\u00a0they\u00a0were\u00a0less\u00a0boisterous\u00a0and\u00a0talkative.\u201d the boy scouts were too gossipy, so they used girl guides as spies instead\u00a0this is probably the best day of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/06\/imkatandimawesome-cumberdoom-papermonocle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10911,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}