{"id":1732,"date":"2012-07-03T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:17:56","slug":"girl-guides-drop-queen-from-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Girl Guides Drop Queen from Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Girl Guides Australia announces that it has changed its Promise (the oath taken by all guides)\u00a0and dropped allegiance to\u00a0the Queen.\u00a0 Guides Director, Brenda Allen said that the change had been made after 18 months of consultation and added, &#8220;Our community comes from about 200 different countries.\u00a0We need to be able to reflect our members and have wording&#8230;that is meaningful and relevant to\u00a0Australian girls\u00a0in the 21st century.&#8221;\u00a0 The usual media beat-up\u00a0here\u00a0described the change\u00a0as controversial\u00a0but it is hardly that, merely sensible as we move away from our colonial past.\u00a0Monarchist organisations were appalled.The\u00a0new wording of\u00a0the Promise\u00a0received wide media coverage overseas where some commentators interpreted it as inappropriate in the Diamond Jubilee year.\u00a0 The Girl Guides themselves made the choice,\u00a0WfaAR cannot believe that\u00a0our monarch\u00a0would be\u00a0terribly\u00a0bothered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Guides Australia announces that it has changed its Promise (the oath taken by all guides)\u00a0and dropped allegiance to\u00a0the Queen.\u00a0 Guides Director, Brenda Allen said that the change had been made after 18 months of consultation and added, &#8220;Our community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20","wpcat-20-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}