{"id":4334,"date":"2014-08-24T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2014-08-24T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:52:49","slug":"als-ice-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"ALS Ice Bucket Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/icebucket.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/icebucket-250x200.png\" alt=\"ice bucket challenge\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/icebucket-250x200.png 250w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/icebucket.png 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>I am sure you have all seen it online, on one social site or another. One person challenges another to donate to the ALS foundation and\/or pour a bucket of ice water over their head. It is currently quite popular, and at the time I write this the organization has received over $70 million dollars from nearly\u00a0two million donors in only 27 days. Not a bad fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>I have watched videos of people I know on Facebook accepting the challenge. Videos of friends I know, relatives, and even former Boy Scout Troop 68 members. No one has named me to the challenge. Until today. Nathan Blommel, an alumni of Troop 68, and a former tennis and racquetball buddy, decided to include me in his challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I do not do well with cold. I seldom went swimming with the troop unless it was a very hot day and the water was fairly warm. I did not do very much winter camping when I was a scoutmaster. My body temperature drops quickly and I start shivering uncontrollably. It is not a very pleasant experience. I can easily see myself turning into one of those Minnesota winter snowbirds, who travel to the warm southern states, once I retire.<\/p>\n<p>But a challenge is a challenge, and needs to have a response, so here is the video for you all to see.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ice Bucket Challenge\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xUWJ6GRm85Y&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xUWJ6GRm85Y&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure you have all seen it online, on one social site or another. One person challenges another to donate to the ALS foundation and\/or pour a bucket of ice water over their head. It is currently quite popular, and at the time I write this the organization has received over $70 million dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}