{"id":2501,"date":"2012-07-24T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2012-07-24T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:44:56","slug":"stapleton-youth-camp-mimics-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Youth Camp Mimics Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>Stapleton parents are always looking for fun and exciting camps to which to send their kids. Most of all, parents want their kids to have fun, but also to learn, and yet others want to make sure their kids are challenged. This is where \u201cCamp Hunger Games\u201d has its niche.\n\nCamp Hunger Games challenges kids in their \u201csurvival\u201d ability including but not limited to food and water gathering, creating shelters, building weapons, understanding one on one combat, and teamwork. Several kids are injured during the camp, but no one has yet to be maimed or killed. \u201cWe wanted to create something unique and different,\u201d says Camp President Seth Williams. \u201cEveryone has sports camps, art camps, and zoo camps. We wanted to do something completely unique.\u201d\nThe weekly camp runs from 8-12, Monday through Friday. The camp takes place at the Bluff Lake Reservation area, where six square miles are blocked off with electrical barbed wire fence. Kids are not allowed to bring anything aside from basic clothing; no food or water is allowed, and no outside weapons. Essentially, the camp begins with Williams reiterating the rules, and then a foghorn blows to start the games.\nKids are allowed to team up with other kids, and the object is to make kids quit or submit. Once they have submitted, they spend the rest of the time at camp in a bamboo cage and are allowed limited food and water. \u201cIf a kid does not report to \u201cthe safe house\u201d the day after they submit, they will not be allowed into camp the following year,\u201d says Williams.\nAt the end of the week, the child that is left receives a free camp, which parents appreciate. \u201cMy son David has come home crying every day,\u201d says parent Traci Closson. \u201cI think he has learned a lot about himself, and the chance for a free camp is definitely worth it.\u201d For more information, parents can go to www.camphungergames.com<\/a>.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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