{"id":277,"date":"2008-05-21T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-06-30T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:00:40","slug":"special-boy-scout-troop-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Special Boy Scout Troop in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/willmar-708452.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\/willmar-708420.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span> I came across an online video today that surprised me. It is a film about a Boy Scout troop near where I live. The troop is a very special troop, a troop of challenged men. The Boy Scout program gives these men a chance to experience life in a way they probably never would outside of Scouting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is the summary found with the video: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bob Gillis Wilmar, Minnesota February 2007 Scouting Serves Men With Special Needs \u201cScouting gives them opportunities to do all the things that they probably wouldn\u2019t have a chance to do without being a member of our troop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I invite you to watch the video, rate it, and leave a comment. It can be found at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/revver.com\/video\/621428\/boy-scouts-wilmar-mn\/\">http:\/\/revver.com\/video\/621428\/boy-scouts-wilmar-mn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This troop really seems to know how to keep the Outing in Scouting, and create a special smile in its participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an online video today that surprised me. It is a film about a Boy Scout troop near where I live. The troop is a very special troop, a troop of challenged men. The Boy Scout program gives these men a chance to experience life in a way they probably never would outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}