{"id":1219,"date":"2010-12-04T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2010-12-04T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:23:28","slug":"newspaper-picks-up-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Picks Up Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beacon9731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1220\" title=\"beacon9731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beacon9731-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beacon9731-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beacon9731-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beacon9731.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I recently wrote a blog post about the historical discovery that a Boy Scout program was started in Melrose way back in 1911. I also submitted the post to the Melrose Beacon, our local weekly newspaper. This week&#8217;s issue arrived today and the (slightly altered) article found on page 5. And very large, I might add, taking nearly half a page with the photos. (Click on the photo to get a larger version.) Kudos to the Melrose Beacon for supporting the Scouting program in Melrose for the past 31 years.<\/p>\n<p>The article has also been posted to the newspaper&#8217;s website. It can be found at<br \/>\n<a title=\"Newspaper article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.albanyenterprise.com\/articles\/2010\/12\/04\/melrose_beacon\/community\/boyscouts.txt\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.albanyenterprise.com\/articles\/2010\/12\/04\/melrose_beacon\/community\/boyscouts.txt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote a blog post about the historical discovery that a Boy Scout program was started in Melrose way back in 1911. I also submitted the post to the Melrose Beacon, our local weekly newspaper. This week&#8217;s issue arrived today and the (slightly altered) article found on page 5. And very large, I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,80],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-newspaper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","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=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}