{"id":2701,"date":"2021-03-19T05:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2021-03-19T05:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:01:56","slug":"passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2021\/03\/19\/passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current events have me looking back on a lot of my history, and it seems like some of that history is catching up with me, too. I popped on to the Binder Planet while we were on vacation and saw a post in one of the main forums about the passing of a familiar name: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binderplanet.com\/forums\/index.php?threads\/sad-news-lost-a-great-bp-friend.146878\">John Hofstetter<\/a>, who used to frequent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krusty-motorsports.com\/ihc\/archive\/\">the IHC Digest<\/a> (a precursor to webforums, back when email was the next evolutionary step beyond BBS). He was an old-timer then, someone who always had a minute to help a young shit like me figure something out in the days before YouTube and when the pictures in reprinted service manuals were too dark to be usable. That led me to another thread started back in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binderplanet.com\/forums\/index.php?threads\/what-happened-to-the-old-timers.135752\/\">asking where all the old timers were<\/a>: as I read through the posts I realized that a lot of the guys I&#8217;d learned from back in the day are gone, and I&#8217;m now the age <em>they<\/em> were when I got into Scouts. That was sobering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current events have me looking back on a lot of my history, and it seems like some of that history is catching up with me, too. I popped on to the Binder Planet while we were on vacation and saw a post in one of the main forums about the passing of a familiar name: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-passage","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}