{"id":9452,"date":"2018-02-14T17:27:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/?p=9452"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:27:26","slug":"the-girls-and-gary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/the-girls-and-gary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girls and Gary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Gary, a gentle yet scary soul.<\/p>\n<p>By Michelle B.\u00a0age 11<\/p>\n<p>Tribe of Manasseh<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9483 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/The-Girls-and-Gary-JR-pic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/The-Girls-and-Gary-JR-pic-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/The-Girls-and-Gary-JR-pic-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/The-Girls-and-Gary-JR-pic-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #444444\">It was a peaceful morning back on the girl\u2019s side of camp. A loud flutter made my ears perk up and as soon as I turned around, I saw it. The beautiful monstrosity. The 6 by 6 inch moth gracefully landed on a window net. It was as beautiful as a butterfly, but its colors made it able to camouflage into a leaf. It was amazing and I knew that it had to be God\u2019s creation. Some were in awe; but all were terrified. Instead of the leaf-like insect freaking us out . . . people were freaking it out. They named the moth Gary and started treating it like a pet. They were doing something they called \u201cpetting it\u201d but deep inside we ALL knew that they were just poking it. Days went by and Gary was still putting up with this animal abuse. Some claimed that the sizeable moth liked the attention; but there was one thing I was sure of. Gary was hurt and almost paralyzed from fear. He was \u201cpet\u201d way too much, and all of this \u201clikeable attention\u201d damaged his wings. The next day I was the only one on the porch and I saw the monstrosity attempt to fly off. He (or she I really don\u2019t know the gender) simply fell and took a hard fall so I laid him on a step. A couple of hours later I found him\u2026 splat! On the grass. This murder mystery is yet to be solved; however, I suspect that there is a traitor among us! This is yet another mystery\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #444444\">Closing off,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif;color: #444444\">Michelle<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Gary, a gentle yet scary soul. By Michelle B.\u00a0age 11 Tribe of Manasseh &nbsp; It was a peaceful morning back on the girl\u2019s side of camp. A loud flutter made my ears perk up and as soon as I turned around, I saw it. The beautiful monstrosity. The 6 by 6 inch moth [&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":[6000,5999],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junior-camp-east-gilgal-gazette-2017","category-gilgal-gazette-2017","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452","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=9452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9452\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jforj.org\/campgilgal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}