{"id":1854,"date":"2016-06-24T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2016-06-24T04:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:26:11","slug":"build-it-and-we-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1854","title":{"rendered":"Build It and We Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1855\" \/><\/a>Saw an online link to summer camps for adults, and being an old camp director, I decided to investigate. There are adult camps on the beach, in the mountains, on rivers and by lakes where one can (pick one) surfboard, canoe, practice archery, kayak, fly-fish, zip-line, raft, mountain-bike, rock-climb or ride a horse.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s even Space Camp where participants role-play space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the pics, the only problem is that none of these \u201cadults\u201d seem to be over 40; most appear under 30.<\/p>\n<p>So I googled \u201csummer camps for seniors.\u201d Oh my! The first camp I found for the over-65 crowd featured (get ready to be underwhelmed) Nintendo Wii bowling, crafts, bingo sessions (what is a bingo \u201csession\u201d) and golf cart rides (does this include actually playing golf).<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break. Baby boomers who introduced American culture to jogging and gym memberships are not going to \u201cgo gently into that good night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My friends ride Harleys and bicycles. They snow ski in the winter and climb mountains in the summer. They play tennis and golf (with or without a cart). Even those with physical limitations do yoga and water aerobics. Hey, I\u2019d go for learning a new language or musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up America. This is not your grandfather\u2019s generation. Build a camp with cool activities, and we will come.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If (or when) you\u2019re over 60, what activities do you want at camp? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw an online link to summer camps for adults, and being an old camp director, I decided to investigate. There are adult camps on the beach, in the mountains, on rivers and by lakes where one can (pick one) surfboard, canoe, practice archery, kayak, fly-fish, zip-line, raft, mountain-bike, rock-climb or ride a horse. There\u2019s even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}