{"id":11857,"date":"2026-04-22T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:54:24","slug":"the-girls-sleepout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/the-girls-sleepout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girls&#8217; Sleepout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>by Mercy (Age 9 | Tribe of Reuben)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, unlike other years, we luckily had a sleepout without rain.&nbsp; This time we slept at the lookout, about a 10-minute walk from camp.&nbsp; We got our sleeping bags, our pillows, and Bibles.&nbsp; Next, we went to the lookout and picked a spot to sleep there.&nbsp; I slept in the middle of the floor of the lookout.&nbsp; Then we waited and waited for something to do.<\/p>\n<p>We looked out at the view, pretended we were cats, and talked.&nbsp; Then we ate hot dogs and hamburgers.&nbsp; Esther didn&#8217;t like the meat, so Speedy came with a huge plate with chicken and potatoes, carrots, and much more.&nbsp; Then we played Red Rover, Red Rover and after that had s&#8217;mores.&nbsp; Then we all got in bed.&nbsp; All of a sudden, we heard a noise that was an instrument.&nbsp; Indigo was playing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, Rachel and I told stories and looked at the view.&nbsp; Then we went back to the cabin and some of us went back to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mercy (Age 9 | Tribe of Reuben) This year, unlike other years, we luckily had a sleepout without rain.&nbsp; This time we slept at the lookout, about a 10-minute walk from camp.&nbsp; We got our sleeping bags, our pillows, and Bibles.&nbsp; Next, we went to the lookout and picked a spot to sleep there.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6057,6059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgal-gazette-2003","category-junior-camp-east-gilgal-gazette-2003","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11857\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}