{"id":4826,"date":"2016-03-31T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2016-03-31T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:59:41","slug":"a-scout-is-fos-thrifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=4826","title":{"rendered":"A Scout Is FOS Thrifty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016fos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016fos-610x275.jpg\" alt=\"2016fos\" width=\"610\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016fos-610x275.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016fos-250x113.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016fos.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a>Several years ago the Central Minnesota Council added a new incentive to the annual Friends Of Scouting (FOS) campaign. If you met a certain donation level you would receive a specially designed council shoulder patch (CSP). Each year would feature a different point of the Scout Law. Twelve points meant twelve patches that could be collected. Being the patch collector that I am, I was hooked from the very first year.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the ninth year of this promotion so the 2016 patch has Thrifty as its theme. The csp features a vintage Boy Scout at the bank, ready to add some money to his saving account. There is a &#8220;ghost&#8221; design on the left side of the patch of a squirrel ready to store\u00a0his acorn for future use. Even the animal kingdom practices being thrifty.<\/p>\n<p>This means there are only three years left of the Scout Law council shoulder patches. I wonder what the design of the next one, Brave, will look like.<\/p>\n<p>Other incentives of this year&#8217;s Central Minnesota Council FOS drive included an electronics cleaning cloth, a Ripley Rendezvous water bottle or frisbee, and an Eagle Scout statuette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago the Central Minnesota Council added a new incentive to the annual Friends Of Scouting (FOS) campaign. If you met a certain donation level you would receive a specially designed council shoulder patch (CSP). Each year would feature a different point of the Scout Law. Twelve points meant twelve patches that could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,88,26],"tags":[189,216,316,157],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-council","category-fundraiser","tag-collectable","tag-fos","tag-friends-of-scouting","tag-patches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}