{"id":6088,"date":"2010-02-26T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/tony-woodlief-boy-the-scout-handbook-keeps-changing-wsj-com\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:28:39","slug":"tony-woodlief-boy-the-scout-handbook-keeps-changing-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/tony-woodlief-boy-the-scout-handbook-keeps-changing-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Woodlief: Boy, the Scout Handbook Keeps Changing &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704188104575083692664509822.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Tony Woodlief: Boy, the Scout Handbook Keeps Changing &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article in the Wall Street Journal today on the changing BSA handbook.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thumbing through various editions brings such differences into sharp relief. A 1951 fifth edition has an Indian spirit on its cover, presiding over camping Scouts. It&#8217;s the first edition with a Conservation Pledge (as well as an ad for hunting-rifle ammunition). The 1972 handbook, meanwhile, features Scouts looking through a telescope, despite Seton&#8217;s claim back in 1911 that a Scout doesn&#8217;t want to know stars &#8220;as an astronomer, but as a traveler.&#8221; The first editions are laden with text, history and diagrams. Modern editions are filled with color photos, less instruction and little history. The newest is, however, made without chlorine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted using <a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\">ShareThis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter&#8221;. &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Woodlief: Boy, the Scout Handbook Keeps Changing &#8211; WSJ.com An article in the Wall Street Journal today on the changing BSA handbook. Thumbing through various editions brings such differences into sharp relief. A 1951 fifth edition has an Indian spirit on its cover, presiding over camping Scouts. It&#8217;s the first edition with a Conservation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-in-the-news","wpcat-79-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-1Ac","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}