{"id":2745,"date":"2012-04-06T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/campgilgal\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2012-04-19T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T22:54:59","slug":"stargazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/stargazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vika S., Age 12<br \/>Tribe of Simeon<\/p>\n<p>When they first announced stargazing, everyone assumed that it was Mission Impossible. Most people didn\u2019t even br<a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/stargazing2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-2745];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2746\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/stargazing2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/stargazing2-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/stargazing2-1024x627.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/stargazing2.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ing comfortable sleeping items. Both Professor and Esquire led stargazing. We had stargazing on Friday after Shabbat, a little while after it got dark. We all went down and got as comfortable as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We started talking about constellations and about the brightness of stars. Everyone saw a couple of shooting stars. It was a beautiful night. It was a perfect night for stargazing because the moon wasn\u2019t out.<\/p>\n<p>Our conversations varied in different directions. We talked about black holes, worm holes, and airplanes combusting. Then back to the usual such as shooting stars, asteroids, and the planets. We talked how beautiful God created the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>I asked different people what their favorite part of stargazing was and Sarah K. said, \u201cIt is very peaceful and I like looking at the stars.\u201d Sarai M. said, \u201cHow beautiful the stars are.\u201d Sam F. said, \u201cSeeing shooting stars.\u201d I personally<br \/>enjoy stargazing because of the beautiful night sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vika S., Age 12Tribe of Simeon When they first announced stargazing, everyone assumed that it was Mission Impossible. Most people didn\u2019t even bring comfortable sleeping items. Both Professor and Esquire led stargazing. We had stargazing on Friday after Shabbat, a little while after it got dark. We all went down and got as comfortable as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[589,586],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junior-camp-west","category-gilgal-gazette-2011","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3136,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}