{"id":3475,"date":"2013-05-27T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2013-05-26T19:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:06:46","slug":"the-scouter-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3475","title":{"rendered":"The Scouter (a poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/crthonor.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3478\" alt=\"crthonor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/crthonor-250x201.gif\" width=\"250\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>I do not know if you have ever read this poem but I thought you may enjoy it. It is a poem by Bill Chiappi about the adult Boy Scout leader. It is called &#8220;The Scouter&#8221;. I happen to come across this many years ago. This might come in handy for that special event.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t much in worldly goods,<br \/>\nYet he\u2019s richer than you know,<br \/>\nFor he\u2019s chosen to be a Scouter<br \/>\nAnd his spirits are aglow.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s just a Scouter, nothing more,<br \/>\nBut he molds the lives of boys.<br \/>\nHe teaches them how to do their best,<br \/>\nAnd he shares their many joys.<\/p>\n<p>They work on badges, go on hikes,<br \/>\nShare campfires in the night.<br \/>\nThey practice skills and follow laws,<br \/>\nAnd learn to do things right.<\/p>\n<p>He watches them grow from boys to men,<br \/>\nAnd it makes it all worthwhile,<br \/>\nWhen they turn to him and say, \u201cGee Thanks!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd their face wears a golden smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not know if you have ever read this poem but I thought you may enjoy it. It is a poem by Bill Chiappi about the adult Boy Scout leader. It is called &#8220;The Scouter&#8221;. I happen to come across this many years ago. This might come in handy for that special event. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[394,329,95],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-leadership","tag-scouter","tag-scoutmaster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}