{"id":3958,"date":"2014-01-12T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2014-01-12T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:01:25","slug":"the-eagle-scout-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle Scout Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eagle-Wall3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3959\" alt=\"Eagle Scout Wall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eagle-Wall3-250x187.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eagle-Wall3-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eagle-Wall3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eagle-Wall3.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><strong>Melrose Boy Scout Troop 68<\/strong> does not have a building or a room to call its home, so my basement family room is the place I have created a &#8220;Scout Room&#8221;. It contains collections of Scouting coffee mugs, awards, and other stuff. The troop holds its patrol leader council meetings, committee meetings, and some training meetings there.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of Troop 68 Eagle Scouts hang on the west wall. There was always a couple Scouts missing because I did not have a good picture to post on the wall. This morning I decided I needed to have photos of everyone, whether they were an actual Eagle picture or not. I searched through my photo collection and picked the best pictures of those missing Scouts, printed them, and placed them into frames.<\/p>\n<p>The wall is now complete. All 21 of the Boy Scouts of Melrose Troop 68 who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout now have a place on the wall. There is even room for one more. Could that spot be filled by the Boy Scout who has an Eagle board of review on Tuesday?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, do you have any idea how hard it is to take a picture of a wall of framed glass photos and not get a reflection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melrose Boy Scout Troop 68 does not have a building or a room to call its home, so my basement family room is the place I have created a &#8220;Scout Room&#8221;. It contains collections of Scouting coffee mugs, awards, and other stuff. The troop holds its patrol leader council meetings, committee meetings, and some training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,24],"tags":[105,228],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-eagle","tag-eagle-scout","tag-photographs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}