{"id":6065,"date":"2009-05-14T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=6065"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:14:40","slug":"boy-scouts-bring-to-mind-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/6065\/boy-scouts-bring-to-mind-cabaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts Bring to Mind &#8220;Cabaret&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this kind of bizarre, Boy Scouts (well, an affiliate) being trained to confront terrorists, run down illegal immigrants and raid marijuana fields, using kids as young as 13 and 1\/2. A competition is described where &#8220;looking at 9\/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like&#8221; and authenticity being their goal, a role player wore traditional Arab dress. (Huh?!) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/14\/us\/14explorers.html?_r=2&#038;th&#038;emc=th\">Explorer-Scouts Train in Post-9\/11 Law Enforcement Methods &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A girl remarks she&#8217;s partly in it because of her attraction to guns and the sounds they make. &#8220;It gets me excited,&#8221; she says. And I think does one really want law enforcement officers who are made thrilled and giddy by the thought of gunfire?<\/p>\n<p>This was brought to mind.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LNMVMNmrqJE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LNMVMNmrqJE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this kind of bizarre, Boy Scouts (well, an affiliate) being trained to confront terrorists, run down illegal immigrants and raid marijuana fields, using kids as young as 13 and 1\/2. A competition is described where &#8220;looking at 9\/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like&#8221; and authenticity being their goal, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}