{"id":110,"date":"2007-06-30T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2010-12-14T10:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:01:56","slug":"boy-scouts-schmucks-and-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts, Schmucks, and Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/1980-Fall-Camporee-07-756479.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/1980-Fall-Camporee-07-756476.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I just have to share<\/span> this quote with you&#8230;  \u201cA scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkexist.com\/quotation\/a_scout_troop_consists_of_twelve_little_kids\/210341.html\">Jack Benny<\/a>, a famous American comedian from radio and early television, said this. I came across this quote the other day when I was browsing the internet. I bet I laughed for the next five minutes after reading this. It is amazing that even though he died in 1974 he can still make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">So the question is,<\/span> are Boy Scouts schmucks? I would say that would depend on your definition of the word. It is a word you do not hear used very often anymore. Are adult leaders schmucks? I cannot speak for everyone but I know there are times when I have certainly felt like one. (See &#8220;Lessons in Stupidity&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>I think the thing about this quote that really struck my funny bone was the reference to adults dressing like kids. That may be true, in a way. Or is it the kids dressing like adults? Either way, I know that being a Scout leader helps to keep the kid in me alive and well. And yes, maybe the schmuck also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to share this quote with you&#8230; \u201cA scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.\u201d Jack Benny, a famous American comedian from radio and early television, said this. I came across this quote the other day when I was browsing the internet. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}