{"id":3763,"date":"2013-03-15T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T16:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/campgilgal\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-04-19T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T18:05:11","slug":"big-buck-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/big-buck-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Buck the Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/big-buck2-sm.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-3763];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3764\" alt=\"big-buck2 sm\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/big-buck2-sm-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/big-buck2-sm-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/04\/big-buck2-sm.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Zack W., Age 14<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">One day we went on a hike. As usual, they didn\u2019t tell us where we were going. We were in a forest. As we were going we saw a little creek. There were also a lot of tree stumps. Some of the people were climbing on them. The tree stumps were huge! As we kept on going we came to a big tree. It was over 2,000 years old. It was called Big Buck. We went because the tree has been alive since Messiah was on earth!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">When we were there Moose took a pine cone from the ground. He said that it only can grow when a forest fire releases the seeds, and that fire sometimes is a part of our lives that helps us grow.\u00a0It was so small compared to the tree. The tree was huge. It was so cool. We had an amazing time looking at a giant thing God has created. Despite finding a host of mosquitos at our destination we were able to marvel at God\u2019s creation and make it safely back to the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack W., Age 14 One day we went on a hike. As usual, they didn\u2019t tell us where we were going. We were in a forest. As we were going we saw a little creek. There were also a lot of tree stumps. Some of the people were climbing on them. The tree stumps were [&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-3763","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\/3763","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=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}