{"id":1233,"date":"2010-12-13T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T22:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-12-13T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T22:19:16","slug":"twas-the-scouts-christmas-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Twas The Scout&#8217;s Christmas Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Christmas Party\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/Web%20site%20yearly%20highlights\/2006stuff\/06christmas01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>Here is a little Christmas Poem I wrote a few years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twas the day of the party<br \/>\nfor the Scouts of the troop.<br \/>\nTime for films, pop, and goodies,<br \/>\nand pizza (but not soup.)<\/p>\n<p>One by one they arrived at<br \/>\nthe scoutmaster\u2019s door.<br \/>\nThey took off both their shoes<br \/>\nthen sat on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of which movie<br \/>\nto watch must be made.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a film about pirates for<br \/>\nwhich the scoutmaster paid.<\/p>\n<p>The lights where turned off and<br \/>\nthe Scouts settled down,<br \/>\nand the movie began in<br \/>\nfull digital sound.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety minutes later<br \/>\nthe movie was paused<br \/>\nfor the pizza had arrived<br \/>\nto the shouts of \u201chuzzah!\u201d<br \/>\n(The Scouts did not really shout that<br \/>\nbut I needed something that rhymed.)<\/p>\n<p>Then the Scouts formed a circle<br \/>\non the living room floor.<br \/>\nTime for the gift exchange!<br \/>\nThis was not time to snore.<\/p>\n<p>The die were passed and rolled for<br \/>\nfifteen long minutes.<br \/>\nEach Scout wanted that one gift,<br \/>\nbut could he roll right to win it?<\/p>\n<p>There was candies and cookies,<br \/>\na skateboard, and games.<br \/>\nThere was not a bad gift so<br \/>\nthere was no one to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the gifts were exchanged,<br \/>\nall the presents unwrapped,<br \/>\nand the movie was finished.<br \/>\nIt was time for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>The Scouts picked up their gifts and<br \/>\nzipped their jackets up tight<br \/>\nwishing \u201cMerry Christmas to all,<br \/>\nand to all a good night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little Christmas Poem I wrote a few years ago. Twas the day of the party for the Scouts of the troop. Time for films, pop, and goodies, and pizza (but not soup.) One by one they arrived at the scoutmaster\u2019s door. They took off both their shoes then sat on the floor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","tag-christmas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}