{"id":9559,"date":"2011-06-06T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:58","slug":"day-193-camp-visor-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9559","title":{"rendered":"Day 193 – Camp Visor (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Princess (age 4) really, really, really wanted to keep this visor for herself.\u00a0 Her logic on why daddy shouldn’t throw it away:\u00a0 It’s pink! This thing was created at some summer camp somewhere along the way.\u00a0 I worked at several: Moneto and Indi-co-so in Indiana, Morgan Memorial in Massachusetts and another camp (actually an “outdoor school”) in California. It brings back a couple of memories: 1)\u00a0 I used to be a huge fan of Berke Breathed’s comic strip “Bloom County” and thought his rip off of Garfield, “Bill the Cat”, was hilarious.\u00a0 All Bill would ever say was “Ack!”\u00a0 Comic gold. and 2) I used to always want a nickname.\u00a0 The name on the visor was supposed to be a nickname, but it never caught on.\u00a0 It says “Stretch”.\u00a0 What was I thinking?\u00a0 You can’t give yourself a nickname.\u00a0 That’s not how it works.\u00a0 But I always thought my name was soooo generic:\u00a0 Steve.\u00a0 Blah. \u00a0Plus, it carried a scar inflicted by one of the hottest girls in my high school.\u00a0 She once said to me, “I\u00a0have a hard time thinking\u00a0of you as a ‘Steve’ because when I picture a ‘Steve’, I picture a really hot guy.”\u00a0 That’s something you keep to yourself!\u00a0 The closest I ever came to actually getting a nickname to stick was the childhood\u00a0summer when my older brother, Spencer, (with my blessing!) worked at intentionally calling me “Burford” every chance he got.\u00a0 (It was a name we got from the old Dick Van Dyke Show, I believe.)\u00a0 Alas, Mom put a stop to that little project and I have remained nickname-less ever since. I’m jealous of all those Biblical characters who got their names changed by God Himself.\u00a0 Wouldn’t that be so cool?\u00a0 Abram becomes Abraham.\u00a0 Simon becomes Peter.\u00a0 Saul becomes Paul. One of my favorite stories in all of Scripture is when Jacob wrestles with “the Angel” and his name gets changed from what amounted to “deceiver” to Israel which means something along the lines of “Strives with God” or “God Rules” or even “God’s Fighter”!\u00a0 How awesome is that. Imagine going from “Liar” to “God’s Fighter”!\u00a0 I want THAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Princess (age 4) really, really, really wanted to keep this visor for herself.\u00a0 Her logic on why daddy shouldn’t throw it away:\u00a0 It’s pink! This thing was created at some summer camp somewhere along the way.\u00a0 I worked at several: Moneto and Indi-co-so in Indiana, Morgan Memorial in Massachusetts and another camp (actually an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9561,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}