{"id":11892,"date":"2026-04-22T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:42:05","slug":"dear-matilda-from-debbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/dear-matilda-from-debbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Matilda, from Debbie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>by Tribe of Naphtali<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Matilda,<\/p>\n<p>My best friend is not a believer in God.&nbsp; My parents won&#8217;t let me hang out with her until she believes.&nbsp; What to do?<\/p>\n<p>Debbie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Debbie,<\/p>\n<p>Try to teach your friend about God.&nbsp; Also, tell your parents that she was not raised to be a believer.&nbsp; Tell them that she is learning from you.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Matilda<\/p>\n<p>P.S. God will always be there for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tribe of Naphtali Dear Matilda, My best friend is not a believer in God.&nbsp; My parents won&#8217;t let me hang out with her until she believes.&nbsp; What to do? Debbie &nbsp; Dear Debbie, Try to teach your friend about God.&nbsp; Also, tell your parents that she was not raised to be a believer.&nbsp; Tell [&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-11892","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\/11892","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=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11893,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}