{"id":1238,"date":"2006-09-26T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/09\/thanks-dad\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:50:00","slug":"thanks-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/thanks-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Scan10001-769607.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Scan10001-760800.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>When I first learned about him,<br \/>I was crazy with it<br \/>Losing my mind<br \/>Chewing off my own leg to get away<\/p>\n<p>You said, &#8220;he&#8217;s still our Nat.&#8221;<br \/>And I stayed.<br \/>I did not realize then how much strength and courage it took<br \/>For you not to cry<br \/>But to think of me instead<br \/>And to think of Nat<br \/>And how he is, still just Nat.<br \/>Just that, but so much.<\/p>\n<p>You knew from the first moment of our black certainty<br \/>What I needed<br \/>Despite what you needed &#8212;<br \/>The pain, the broken dream<br \/>Of the first grandson<br \/>Not broken at all<br \/>You smiled and shrugged<br \/>Wisdom in your not-knowing<br \/>He can live at home<br \/>He can do anything<br \/>Let&#8217;s get out the books<br \/>Let&#8217;s pick up the twigs<br \/>Let&#8217;s get out the bikes<br \/>Let&#8217;s get out the prayer shawl<br \/>Let&#8217;s run.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still our Nat,<br \/>After all<br \/>And that is that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first learned about him,I was crazy with itLosing my mindChewing off my own leg to get away You said, &#8220;he&#8217;s still our Nat.&#8221;And I stayed.I did not realize then how much strength and courage it tookFor you not to cryBut to think of me insteadAnd to think of NatAnd how he is, still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-jY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}