{"id":5367,"date":"2013-10-10T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jforj.com\/campgilgal\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:59:20","slug":"facing-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/facing-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/10\/Facing-fears2.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-5367];player=img;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5368\" alt=\"Facing fears2\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/10\/Facing-fears2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/10\/Facing-fears2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/10\/Facing-fears2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2013\/10\/Facing-fears2.jpg 1147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Olivia P., Age 13<\/p>\n<p>When I first walked on to the rock climbing course I thought to myself, \u201cThere is no way I can do this. I am way too afraid of heights.\u201d I was talking to other campers and they were encouraging me to face my fears and get on the rock wall. I thought about it and before I could think any longer I was strapping into a harness and put on a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>After I was in the harness and had my helmet on I sat and watched my friend Lindsay, who is also afraid of heights, reach the top and ring the bell. I asked Lindsay how it was afterwards and she said, \u201cAfterwards I felt accomplished that I faced my fear of heights, and that I tried new things to get me out of my comfort zone.\u201d Hearing that from Lindsay really gave me confidence.<\/p>\n<p>I walked up to the rock wall and stood there patiently as the instructor clipped me onto the rope. After I was clipped in I began climbing. I made it past the first set of rocks and everybody was cheering me on. Their encouragement really helped me to go further and further, and eventually I made it to the top and rang the bell. I felt so accomplished and I would\u2019ve never been able to make it to the top without the encouragement of the other campers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia P., Age 13 When I first walked on to the rock climbing course I thought to myself, \u201cThere is no way I can do this. I am way too afraid of heights.\u201d I was talking to other campers and they were encouraging me to face my fears and get on the rock wall. I [&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":[5974,5970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teen-camp-west-gilgal-gazette-2013","category-gilgal-gazette-2013","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367","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=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5369,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}