{"id":12297,"date":"2025-07-18T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:36:31","slug":"mary-stevens-was-just-8-now-a-texas-camp-is-in-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=12297","title":{"rendered":"Mary Stevens Was Just 8 \u2014 Now a Texas Camp Is in Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Father\u2019s Heartbreaking Loss: 8-Year-Old Mary Stevens Taken by Texas Floods at Camp Mystic. \u201cI\u2019ve trained hundreds of boys to be strong, to win and lose, to get back up. But no one ever prepared me to lose my own daughter.\u201d These poignant words come from a devastated father mourning his 8-year-old daughter, Mary Stevens, who tragically died after severe flash flooding struck Camp Mystic in Texas Hill Country during the July 4th weekend of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Mystic, a beloved summer camp known for fostering joy, adventure, and friendship along the Guadalupe River, was overwhelmed when floodwaters rose rapidly\u2014more than 25 feet in less than an hour\u2014leaving campers and staff little time to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, remembered by friends and family as a bright and cheerful girl, was reported missing immediately. Despite tireless\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Father\u2019s Heartbreaking Loss: 8-Year-Old Mary Stevens Taken by Texas Floods at Camp Mystic. \u201cI\u2019ve trained hundreds of boys to be strong, to win and lose, to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12299,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/12299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}