{"id":10692,"date":"2013-07-16T21:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T01:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2013-07-16T21:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T01:10:39","slug":"can-you-tell-the-reason-id-make-a-lousy-boy-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/16\/can-you-tell-the-reason-id-make-a-lousy-boy-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you tell the reason I&#8217;d make a lousy Boy Scout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading the latest issue of <em>Esquire<\/em>, which is a better magazine than you probably give it credit for. In his editorial,  Editor-in-Chief David Granger recounted a trip to his father-in-law&#8217;s memorial service, and how Bill Dodson&#8217;s eldest son, Dick, praised his father by comparing his traits to those listed in the Boy Scout Law.<\/p>\n<p>Granger then included a condensed version of those suggested behaviors, which I share with you here. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EsquireBoyScoutEditorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EsquireBoyScoutEditorial-108x300.jpg\" alt=\"EsquireBoyScoutEditorial\" width=\"108\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EsquireBoyScoutEditorial-108x300.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EsquireBoyScoutEditorial-368x1024.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/EsquireBoyScoutEditorial.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I read through the list of attributes to which we should all aspire, I kept thinking to myself, &#8220;Yep, yep, trying to do that, and that, too&#8221;&#8212;until I got to one which instead had me thinking, &#8220;No way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you know me well enough to be able to tell which of the rules rubbed me the wrong way?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading the latest issue of Esquire, which is a better magazine than you probably give it credit for. In his editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Granger recounted a trip to his father-in-law&#8217;s memorial service, and how Bill Dodson&#8217;s eldest son, Dick, praised his father by comparing his traits to those listed in the Boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,243],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esquire","tag-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}