{"id":1366,"date":"2011-07-13T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/july-13-2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T07:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:21:00","slug":"july-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/july-13-2\/","title":{"rendered":"July 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted here several times before on July 13, including <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/july-13\/\">last year<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/july-13-and-some-numbers\/\">year before that<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/7-13\/\">year before that<\/a> (but of course not <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/15\/big-d\/\">the year before that<\/a>).&#160; It&#8217;s a memorable day for me, similar to the way that the year 586 was memorable for the Judeans exiled to Babylon. Recently, however, I came across some photos taken on July 13, &#8220;587&#8221; (the year before the exile). These brought back good memories and qualify this day for my infrequent series on &#8220;Favorite Days in My Life.&#8221; On this day my friend Josh Clutterham and I went camping with five little boys.&#160; My two sons were joined by the three Berg boys (sons of our <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/in-glory-philip-berg\/\">late friend Phil<\/a>) and we headed out for the Aijalon Valley.&#160; We camped near Tell Yalo (Aijalon) and enjoyed exploring the trails and caves in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713419tb-Hiking-near-Tell-Aijalon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713419tb Hiking near Tell Aijalon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713419tb Hiking near Tell Aijalon\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713419tb-Hiking-near-Tell-Aijalon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713423tb-Climbing-in-cave-near-Tell-Aijalon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713423tb Climbing in cave near Tell Aijalon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713423tb Climbing in cave near Tell Aijalon\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713423tb-Climbing-in-cave-near-Tell-Aijalon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713437tb-Hiking-near-Tell-Aijalon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713437tb Hiking near Tell Aijalon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713437tb Hiking near Tell Aijalon\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713437tb-Hiking-near-Tell-Aijalon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713450tb-Luke-on-Joshs-shoulders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713450tb Luke on Josh&#39;s shoulders\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713450tb Luke on Josh&#39;s shoulders\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713450tb-Luke-on-Joshs-shoulders_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713405tb-Cooking-hotdogs-on-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713405tb Cooking hotdogs on fire\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713405tb Cooking hotdogs on fire\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713405tb-Cooking-hotdogs-on-fire_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713411tb-Eating-dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"060713411tb Eating dinner\" border=\"0\" alt=\"060713411tb Eating dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/060713411tb-Eating-dinner_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted here several times before on July 13, including last year and the year before that and the year before that (but of course not the year before that).&#160; It&#8217;s a memorable day for me, similar to the way that the year 586 was memorable for the Judeans exiled to Babylon. Recently, however, I\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/july-13-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-days-in-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}