{"id":2724,"date":"2022-12-01T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T19:57:34","slug":"we-put-the-outing-in-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We put the outing in scouting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/boy-scout-insignia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/boy-scout-insignia.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2725\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boy Scout insignia&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just interviewed a local Scoutmaster for a newspaper article about his troop.  His standard sound byte is:  <em><strong>&#8220;We put the outing in scouting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>  He said once a month, the troop goes camping as one, of many, scouting activities.  He said it&#8217;s good to regularly get kids &#8220;&#8230;off screens and out into nature.&#8221;  I agree.  During our travels, we met with <strong>David Orr<\/strong>, who was the head of <strong>Oberlin College&#8217;s Environmental Science Departmen<\/strong>t at the time, and also an author.  Among a number of books, he wrote: <em><strong>Earth in the Balance<\/strong><\/em>.  He said many kids, and adults, these days, have developed &#8220;bio-phobia.&#8221;  And, often, the closest they get to nature are things like: <strong>The Weather Channel. <\/strong> Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/environment-ckji\">position paper on the environment<\/a> is a structured set of strategies revolving around emphasizing the importance of nature, in all it&#8217;s dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just interviewed a local Scoutmaster for a newspaper article about his troop. His standard sound byte is: &#8220;We put the outing in scouting.&#8221; He said once a month, the troop goes camping as one, of many, scouting activities. He <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2724\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}