{"id":167,"date":"2015-10-05T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2015-10-05T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T02:22:41","slug":"reflections-mda-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/2015\/10\/05\/reflections-mda-summer-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections &#8211; MDA Summer Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, each summer I would look forward to going to the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mda.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association)<\/a> Summer Camp in Green Lake, WI. \u00a0Camp provided the opportunity to meet with friends and peers who shared similar disabilities, and life stories. \u00a0It was a great time where we could spend time together, campers and counselors, as friends and peers, without the barriers that disability often bring.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the funnest times at camp came from the crazy pranks and antics we would pull. \u00a0In fact, one year we ransomed half a dozen alarm clocks from one cabin, set them for different times at night, and hid or taped them to the underside of beds in another cabin. \u00a0We then wrote a\u00a0ransom to the cabin whose clocks had been taken as if they had been taken by what I shall call the &#8220;cabin of no sleep&#8221;. \u00a0It was a genius and hilarious plan. \u00a0The following morning, bleary eyed from disrupted sleep the members of the &#8220;cabin of no sleep&#8221; arrived at the dining hall for breakfast. \u00a0As the morning announcements were read (ransoms which often featured silly songs or dances were often included at the end of announcements, after which the ransomed items were returned). \u00a0As the ransom was read for the stolen alarm clocks, implicating the &#8220;cabin of no sleep&#8221;, confusion and arguing arose amongst the ransomed cabin and the sleepless cabin. \u00a0The Program Director of the camp, who was a connoisseur and folk-legend of camp pranks, had been cued into the joke, as the members of New Zaug sat laughing to\u00a0ourselves at the sheer brilliance of this prank.<\/p>\n<p>Summer camp forged many a strong and lasting friendship, and lives on in my fondest memories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/_d_improd_\/11-300x202_f_improf_300x202.jpg\" alt=\"MDA Summer Camp 2004\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MDA Summer Camp 2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two great friends pictured on the right have passed since the summer of 04<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">In memorium &#8211;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Borth<\/p>\n<p>Josh Gensch<\/p>\n<p>You, and the friends we have lost over the years, are sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, each summer I would look forward to going to the annual MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) Summer Camp in Green Lake, WI. \u00a0Camp provided the opportunity to meet with friends and peers who shared similar disabilities, and life stories. \u00a0It was a great time where we could spend time together, campers and counselors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}