{"id":453,"date":"2009-06-04T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-07-13T12:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T17:51:22","slug":"going-to-woodbadge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Going to Woodbadge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/Woodbadge-All-Patrols-717647.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 194px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/Woodbadge-All-Patrols-717642.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was beginning to feel<\/span> a little burned out after serving as the scoutmaster of Troop 68 for six years in the fall of 1987. I told Paul, a great Scouting friend of mine, how I was feeling about Scouting. He suggested that I attend a Woodbadge training course. Woodbadge would get me energized.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I had heard about Woodbadge, that it is like the college course of Scout leader training, and that it is an excellent course to attend. I also knew that it would take place over three weekends and that there was a &#8220;nice&#8221; registration fee. Woodbadge would be something I would attend some other time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul caught up with me<\/span> during a district function in the spring of 1988. &#8220;I registered you for the fall Woodbadge course,&#8221; he told me, and then gave me the dates of the three weekends. &#8220;Well gosh,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;that was nice of him.&#8221; Yes, I wanted to participate in a Woodbadge course but this was much sooner than I had planned. Oh well, I was registered now so I guess I may as well get it done and over with.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I told the troop committee about it at the next meeting. They agreed to pay a portion of the cost for which I was very thankful. I also discovered that I would need another uniform shirt since I was not about to redo many of the patches on my current troop uniform. Luckily, I already had the official Scout pants, cap, and socks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As the first weekend approached I began to get a little nervous. I was attending the course in Viking Council, since our council was not conducting Woodbadge training. I knew Paul would be on the staff as the troop quartermaster but would I know anyone else? Who would be in my patrol? What would be my patrol name? Too many questions. Too much to be nervous about.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was beginning to feel a little burned out after serving as the scoutmaster of Troop 68 for six years in the fall of 1987. I told Paul, a great Scouting friend of mine, how I was feeling about Scouting. He suggested that I attend a Woodbadge training course. Woodbadge would get me energized. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[394,411,64],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","tag-leadership","tag-training","tag-woodbadge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}