{"quotes":[{"text":"What on earth would I do if four bears came into my camp? Why, I would die of course. Literally shit myself lifeless.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["appalachia","attack","bear","camp","camping","funny","hiking","shit","trail","true"],"id":14034,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.","author":"Armistead Maupin","tags":["camp","gay","humor","innuendo"],"id":109718,"author_id":"Armistead+Maupin"},{"text":"As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.","author":"Brad Herzog","tags":["aging","camp","memory","nostalgia"],"id":119096,"author_id":"Brad+Herzog"},{"text":"But we left camp after a while and we was driving in a real spooky place cause all the roads up near camp are dark and in the woods and we had to drive for a while to get to a highway cause there was no street lights or anything and nothing but woods and my dad asked me if I had a good time and I told him I did, but that’s really a lie and I felt like telling him what it was like at that mean old camp, but I thought he’d get mad and tell me I’m making it up and I thought I’d tell him some other time like Febuary and cause I didn’t think he’d believe me anyway, but so I changed my mind and then I thought I should tell him now cause he’ll wonder howcome I never told him sooner, so when he said that’s a nasty gash and when he said what did I do, stumble on the trail and hit a big rock or something? I told him no and I told him that lots of bad things happened to me at camp and that I never want to go there again cause I hate it and I almost cried. But he said I always had a bibid emigination cause he’s sure it wasn’t that bad! And I don’t know about those big words either, but what he said made me kind of mad cause grownups always think they know what happened to you better than you do yourself.","author":"Timothy Victor Richardson","tags":["boys","camp","child","childhood","childhood memories","family","family-relationships","frightening","funny","grownups","humor","initiation"],"id":185362,"author_id":"Timothy+Victor+Richardson"},{"text":"They take you. They treat you. They transform you.","author":"Dan Carr","tags":["camp","change","dan-carr","new-horizons"],"id":250201,"author_id":"Dan+Carr"},{"text":"It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["blood","camp","greek","half","jackson","jupiter","neptune","percy","rome","son"],"id":268054,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.","author":"Laurie Kahn","tags":["camp","camp friends","content","friendship","good","happiness","honeymoon","marriage","sleep-away-camp","sleepaway-camp","summer-camp","summer-camps"],"id":269473,"author_id":"Laurie+Kahn"},{"text":"Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["belief","camp","difficulty","geology","green-mounds","history","ignorance","roman","science"],"id":269507,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"Percy: I’ll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids’ head into the toilets. It’s nice that some things never change.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["camp","everyone","funny","normal"],"id":305748,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.","author":"Hillary Clinton","tags":["i am","camp","mostly "],"id":386509,"author_id":"Hillary+Clinton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}