{"id":169,"date":"2009-06-21T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2009\/06\/to-dad\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T08:25:00","slug":"to-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/to-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"To Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s strong and seasoned, stretched thin like a piece of old leather<br \/>His hair flutters around his head like a nest of fluffy grey feathers<br \/>Times I called him on the phone and cried<br \/>So worn out so sad I nearly died<br \/>He always has a way to lift me up again<br \/>whether by joke, or story, or hand-in-hand<br \/>Wise and centered even when he ain&#8217;t<br \/>He keeps it together, all of us &#8212; incredible restraint<br \/>My dearest wish for him is to keep running strong<br \/>Right next to Mom, his inspirational song<br \/>The thing in my heart is to just tell the world<br \/>I&#8217;m so happy to have been and to always be<br \/>his little girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s strong and seasoned, stretched thin like a piece of old leatherHis hair flutters around his head like a nest of fluffy grey feathersTimes I called him on the phone and criedSo worn out so sad I nearly diedHe always has a way to lift me up againwhether by joke, or story, or hand-in-handWise and [&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-169","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-2J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}