{"id":3972,"date":"2014-01-25T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2014-01-25T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T15:25:03","slug":"ma-you-earned-your-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"Ma, You Earned Your Eagle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it. Many Boy Scouts would not become an Eagle Scout without their parent&#8217;s support, especially their mother&#8217;s support. She probably learns as much, if not more, than the young man does on his road to Scouting&#8217;s highest award. Maybe that is the reason mothers receive a pin each time their son receives a Scouting rank. Just a little recognition, you know.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bryan, over at the <a title=\"Bryan On Scouting\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.scoutingmagazine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bryan On Scouting<\/strong><\/a> blog, I was introduced to a humorous and emotional video which salutes mothers for &#8220;putting up with&#8221; and helping out all those Boy Scout who have earned their Eagle Rank. Eagle Scout mothers &#8211; We salute you!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2V20WkApl6A?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it. Many Boy Scouts would not become an Eagle Scout without their parent&#8217;s support, especially their mother&#8217;s support. She probably learns as much, if not more, than the young man does on his road to Scouting&#8217;s highest award. Maybe that is the reason mothers receive a pin each time their son receives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[105,366,19],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eagle","tag-eagle-scout","tag-mother","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","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=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}