{"id":3707,"date":"2013-03-15T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/campgilgal\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2013-04-18T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:16:55","slug":"benching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/benching\/","title":{"rendered":"Benching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Eliana S., Age 13<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Benching. It\u2019s something that the camp does together as a whole. The Hebrew prayer thanks the Lord for the food and substance that He provides for us. Banging on the table may be fun \u2013 well, it is fun, but benching is so much more. The words in English say, \u201cBlessed are you, God, ruler of the world, who gives food to all with grace, kindness and compassion.\u201d This means that God in heaven gives us food through His great goodness and He provides us with what we <a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/friends5-sm.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-3707];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3708\" alt=\"friends5 sm\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/friends5-sm-300x132.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/friends5-sm-300x132.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/friends5-sm.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Something that a lot of people take for granted is two or three meals a day. God is so good to give us such a privilege when so many people in the world don\u2019t get that luxury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">A good thing to remember each day is to not take that for granted and to always thank God for His great goodness. That\u2019s why we always bench after lunch. \u201cBlessed are You, God, who nourishes all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliana S., Age 13 Benching. It\u2019s something that the camp does together as a whole. The Hebrew prayer thanks the Lord for the food and substance that He provides for us. Banging on the table may be fun \u2013 well, it is fun, but benching is so much more. The words in English say, \u201cBlessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[595,591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teen-camp-west-gilgal-gazette-2012","category-gilgal-gazette-2012","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707","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=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}