{"id":708,"date":"2007-02-24T19:56:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T00:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2007-03-08T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T17:28:47","slug":"what-makes-a-patch-an-official-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/what-makes-a-patch-an-official-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a patch an official issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pannell has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaimages.com\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/20\/what-makes-a-patch-an-official-issue\/\">post<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 on what makes a patch an official issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are those of us who worry and debate over how patches should be classified.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In most cases this is very easy:\u00c2\u00a0 a 3\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 round is an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; a chenille is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153C\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit harder:\u00c2\u00a0 What makes a patch a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153P\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153J\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Is a triangular patch on a neckerchief an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153X\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153P\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Is a 5\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 round patch an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153J\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?\u00c2\u00a0 How do you classify the very odd-shaped \u00e2\u20ac\u0153flaps\u00e2\u20ac\u009d issued by some lodges, that will likely never be worn on uniforms?<\/p>\n<p>Beyond all this is one subject that can\u00c2\u00a0inflame passions more than all the rest:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What makes a patch an official issue?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is an interesting read and currently has 10 comments as I write this.\u00c2\u00a0 He has examples of 8-10 patches some of which are currently listed in the Blue Book as lodges issues and some not.\u00c2\u00a0 It also includes the 95 ZA1 I recently wrote up on this site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pannell has an interesting post\u00c2\u00a0 on what makes a patch an official issue. There are those of us who worry and debate over how patches should be classified.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In most cases this is very easy:\u00c2\u00a0 a 3\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 round is an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; a chenille is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153C\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit harder:\u00c2\u00a0 What makes a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-blogs","wpcat-27-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-bq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}