{"id":5498,"date":"2021-08-11T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2021-08-07T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:31:24","slug":"sherwood-forest-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2021\/08\/sherwood-forest-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood forest in the news."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maybe you caught it too, the hoolabaloo around Sherwood Forest in Nottingham, UK. Maybe you aren&#8217;t interested in the antics of Robin Hood. This is not about Robin hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what it&#8217;s about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nudists spotted in Sherwood Forest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/nottingham-news\/nudists-spotted-in-sherwood-forest-5750256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nottingham Post<\/a> last Friday. A bunch of non-nudists had complained about seeing nude people in the forest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the upheaval boiled down to nothing, which is good, although the textile community is still up in arms about it, probably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.worthpoint.com\/zoom\/images1\/1\/0408\/03\/vintage-photo-negative-vernacular-nudist-forest_1_f1f4ad00516f0d1abe1f2a181f6212d2.jpg\" alt=\"Nude in a forest\" width=\"301\" height=\"199\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In England, nudity is legal as long as the nude person(s) are not making a nuisance of themselves. See the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cps.gov.uk\/legal-guidance\/nudity-public-guidance-handling-cases-naturism\">UK Crown Prosecution Service site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funny thing about this, when you look closely enough, is that the good and dressed people of Nottingham are screaming that this is illegal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they knew the law, or at least make the effort of looking it up, they would see that they&#8217;re wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(But who would want to look for their own wrong, right?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">British Naturism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E8Lg_tOX0AU7s1j?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Image\"\/><figcaption>Donna Price on talkRadio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Price, British Naturism&#8217;s coordinator for Women in Naturism, had a video talk with a talkRadio host about the stir this all caused. At the moment of writing, there is a link to the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/jrt5ihliiynpjtj\/AAB5-xpao1QQLNlQgT0PYLrHa?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. Click at own risk, it might have been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As so often, the biggest issue was that &#8216;people don&#8217;t want to see this&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think they should learn that the world isn&#8217;t just about what they want, but that there are other people with other views and ideas. If they don&#8217;t want to see this, they should look elsewhere. I have never been to Sherwood Forest, but if Robin Hood could stay hidden from the soldiers so long, it must be big enough for every kind of person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nudists were not and are not &#8216;ruining&#8217; the forest, as the banner on the image states. That&#8217;s just in people&#8217;s one-track minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately. Because there are so many of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you caught it too, the hoolabaloo around Sherwood Forest in Nottingham, UK. Maybe you aren&#8217;t interested in the antics of Robin Hood. This is not about Robin hood. This is what it&#8217;s about: Nudists spotted in Sherwood Forest It was in the Nottingham Post last Friday. A bunch of non-nudists had complained about seeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2021\/08\/sherwood-forest-in-the-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sherwood forest in the news.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[386,589,3,321],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-outside","category-nudism-2","tag-britain","tag-brittain","tag-nudism","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}