{"id":2683,"date":"2018-02-13T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:01:21","slug":"a-giant-among-men-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"A GIANT among men.  Period."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen some very dramatic changes in the world of scouting in the last few years.  What if I told you there was a GIANT among the men who have led the boys of the BOY SCOUTS to go on to become Eagles, pilots, doctors, lawyers and business leaders?  What If I were to tell you that he STARTED doing just that in 1942 and only ceased to a scant couple of years ago?  WELCOME to the world of Julio &#8220;Jay&#8221; Balde.  A pillar of the &#8220;Down Neck&#8221; Luso-American community as well as the fledgling Nutley, (NJ), Volunteer Emergency &amp; Rescue Squad.  Riding member for SIXTY YEARS.  Think of that for a moment.  I&#8217;ll wait.  Sure, I COULD &#8220;gush&#8221; on and on.  Instead, I&#8217;ll defer to a MUCH better writer than I.  Ladies &amp; Gentlemen, Mr. Barry Carter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/essex\/index.ssf\/2018\/02\/a_newark_scoutmasters_final_salute_carter.html\">http:\/\/www.nj.com\/essex\/index.ssf\/2018\/02\/a_newark_scoutmasters_final_salute_carter.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to read his entire series on Jay.  It WILL be worth your time in the way you view HUMANITY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen some very dramatic changes in the world of scouting in the last few years. What if I told you there was a GIANT among the men who have led the boys of the BOY SCOUTS to go on to become Eagles, pilots, doctors, lawyers and business leaders? What If I were to tell<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2683\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}