{"id":7788,"date":"2011-11-19T23:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2011-11-19T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:14:10","slug":"saturday-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7788","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I attended an Eagle Scout court of honor this afternoon with my father. I didn’t know the boy who was earning the rank, or the local Scout troop, or really anyone there except my father. But he asked me to tag along, and so I did. Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. My father knows the troop, helped out at the boy’s Eagle project, and had a few brief sentences to read during the event.<\/p>\n

This time was a little less awkward than the last one of these we attended<\/a>, almost a year ago. This time, at least, when I reluctantly took to the stage to join the rest of the Eagle Scouts in attendance in repeating our pledge to the Scout Law, I was in a much larger group, and not just a third wheel with two other people listed by name in the program. I was still some stranger off the street — in a suit and tie, though — but I felt a little less conspicuous, a little less like I was trying to shoehorn my way in.<\/p>\n

Then this evening, I watched Croupier<\/a>, which was enjoyable and interesting, if ultimately a little unsatisfying.<\/p>\n

And that was my Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended an Eagle Scout court of honor this afternoon with my father. I didn’t know the boy who was earning the rank, or the local Scout troop, or really anyone there except my father. But he asked me to tag along, and so I did. Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. My … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,28,118],"class_list":["post-7788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-scouting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}