{"id":22626,"date":"2026-07-09T22:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22626"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:28:50","slug":"daily_4145_-_a_mountain_of_badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/07\/09\/daily_4145_-_a_mountain_of_badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4145 &#8211; a mountain of badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/07\/07\/daily_2362_-_transferring_scout_badges\/\">transferring Adrian&#8217;s scout badges<\/a> from an outgrown scout shirt to a new one. Already then I said it would be last time I&#8217;d do it for him.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the shirt that was new then has been far to small for a long time. Adrian has been wearing scout t-shirts or hoodies instead. For this year&#8217;s summer camp, he wants to have a proper shirt again, and all the badges on it.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been hard at work with the seam ripper to get the badges off the old shirt. There was also a small mountain of badges that he&#8217;s earned since then. The total is&#8230; impressive. At least fifty.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of work that it would take to sew all these on is truly immense. We&#8217;ve concluded that textile glue is the only reasonable way forward.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4145_scout_badges.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I was transferring Adrian&#8217;s scout badges from an outgrown scout shirt to a new one. Already then I said it would be last time I&#8217;d do it for him. Well, the shirt that was new then has been far to small for a long time. Adrian has been wearing scout t-shirts or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22629,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22626\/revisions\/22629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}