{"id":11131,"date":"2014-10-10T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=11131"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T13:57:13","slug":"jota-founder-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2014\/10\/10\/jota-founder-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"JOTA founder passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/jotajoti.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">JOTA 2014<\/a> a little more than a week away comes the news that its founding father, Les Mitchell, G3BHK, died on 6 October.<\/p>\n<p>Les started JOTA in 1958, after launching the idea a year earlier at the World Scout Jamboree.<\/p>\n<p>That was the first year the Jamboree had an amateur radio station on site, and has had one every year since.<\/p>\n<p>Scouting&#8217;s 2014 Jamboree on the Air is set for the 18 and 19 October.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event links Scouts and Guides around the world via amateur radio; if you hear them on the air, please give them a shout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With JOTA 2014 a little more than a week away comes the news that its founding father, Les Mitchell, G3BHK, died on 6 October. Les started JOTA in 1958, after launching the idea a year earlier at the World Scout Jamboree. That was the first year the Jamboree had an amateur radio station on site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}