{"id":1100,"date":"2007-04-06T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2007-04-06T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T17:00:07","slug":"scouting-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/scouting-on-steroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting on steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not literally, but what else is there to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/02\/AR2007040201570.html\">a guy who has  earned all 122 Scouting merit badges? <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bugling was probably one of the most difficult,&#8221; said Calderwood, a high school senior. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been very musically gifted. And I was on five different continents over the summer, so I didn&#8217;t have much time to practice. &#8230; I brought my mouthpiece with me. I brought it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and everyplace else I was, and I tried to practice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  I think I had three merit badges (one of which was first aid; I was a practical sixth-grader).<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/2007\/04\/boy-scout-soars-far-beyond-eagle-rank.html\">Melrose Troop 68 Blog.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not literally, but what else is there to say about a guy who has earned all 122 Scouting merit badges? &#8220;Bugling was probably one of the most difficult,&#8221; said Calderwood, a high school senior. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never been very musically gifted.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/04\/06\/scouting-on-steroids\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}