{"id":4373,"date":"2014-09-14T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T14:48:09","slug":"the-eight-piece-starter-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"The Eight Piece Starter Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/village-8pc-set.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/village-8pc-set.png\" alt=\"village 8pc set\" width=\"400\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/village-8pc-set.png 486w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/village-8pc-set-250x222.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I remember when the Boy Scout stores began selling the Scouting Village pieces a couple years ago. I decided to start collecting them a little too late and missed out on getting the lighted Trading Post building. I still do not have one. When this year&#8217;s village pieces became available at our local Scout Shop I bought all three immediately. I did not want to make the same mistake a second time.<\/p>\n<p>I recently noticed that in addition to this year&#8217;s collection pieces, <strong>scoutstuff.com<\/strong> has an eight piece starter set available to purchase. The set includes all the pieces from 2012 and 2013, including the lighted Trading Post. So, in other words, I can now get the piece I am missing, if I am willing to spend $80 on the whole set. Since I have all the other pieces already, I do not think I will be doing that.<\/p>\n<p>I wish the scoutstuff.com website would make all the pieces available as single pieces. It is obvious they are manufacturing the pieces again, otherwise why wouldn&#8217;t they have offered the pieces online earlier to clear out inventory? \u00a0I am sure I am not the only one who missed out buying a building during the last two years, or maybe I am. I does frustrate me a bit, almost to the point of thinking that this will probably be the last year I will collect the Scouting Village pieces.<\/p>\n<p>It is a great idea to offer the set to new collectors, but I feel it is a slap in the face to those of us who began collecting two years ago. What do you think about it?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.scoutstuff.org\/set-village-lighted-8pc.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when the Boy Scout stores began selling the Scouting Village pieces a couple years ago. I decided to start collecting them a little too late and missed out on getting the lighted Trading Post building. I still do not have one. When this year&#8217;s village pieces became available at our local Scout Shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,72],"tags":[288,402,308],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-holiday","tag-collection","tag-scouting","tag-village"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}