{"id":4147,"date":"2014-06-22T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2014-06-22T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T03:26:07","slug":"a-late-evening-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4147","title":{"rendered":"A Late Evening Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhilmontSunset0871a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4148\" alt=\"Philmont Sunset 0871a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhilmontSunset0871a.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhilmontSunset0871a.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PhilmontSunset0871a-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>A few things came to mind as I took a late evening walk around Melrose tonight that was different from taking a walk at Philmont Scout Ranch:<br \/>\n1) It is a lot more humid in Minnesota then it is in New Mexico.<br \/>\n2) It stays lighter about an hour later in central Minnesota than it does at Philmont.<br \/>\n3) There are a lot more mosquitoes in Minnesota than Philmont, which reminds me that MN is where skeeters are raised and then exported to the rest of the country.<br \/>\n4) There is a lot more traffic in Melrose than at Philmont Scout ranch.<br \/>\n5) I already miss those late night Philmont walks with Scouting friends that would take us to the Base Camp trading post for an ice cream cone before heading back to PTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things came to mind as I took a late evening walk around Melrose tonight that was different from taking a walk at Philmont Scout Ranch: 1) It is a lot more humid in Minnesota then it is in New Mexico. 2) It stays lighter about an hour later in central Minnesota than it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,53],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity","category-philmont","tag-philmont"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}