{"id":2049,"date":"2016-05-03T17:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-05-03T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:59:39","slug":"family-life-merit-badge-aka-cleaning-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Family Life Merit Badge (aka Cleaning the Basement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourteen year old son is in Boy Scouts and, as part of the process, has to earn merit badges in a variety of subjects along the way.\u00a0 (For those of you familiar with Boy Scouts, he is currently a Life Scout with only his camping merit badge and his Eagle Scout project standing in the way of his becoming an Eagle Scout.)<\/p>\n<p>As part of getting the Family Life merit badge, he undertook to clean up the basement.\u00a0 I do think that a comparison of cleaning up our basement to the Labors of Hercules is not without merit.\u00a0 Nonetheless, he persevered over an entire Saturday and managed to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>This event is definitely worth celebrating in the family chronicles.\u00a0 As a result, his proud father put together a slideshow of before and after photos of our basement.\u00a0 And, naturally, in keeping with the family&#8217;s current obsession, set the slideshow to the soundtrack of &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; (which was nominated for a record 16 Tony awards, but I digress).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2049-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/basement.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/basement.mp4\">http:\/\/mayliang.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/basement.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fourteen year old son is in Boy Scouts and, as part of the process, has to earn merit badges in a variety of subjects along the way.\u00a0 (For those of you familiar with Boy Scouts, he is currently a Life Scout with only his camping merit badge and his Eagle Scout project standing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,327],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-boy-scouts","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-x3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}