{"id":1456,"date":"2012-08-07T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:39:22","slug":"dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1457\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Am visiting my youngest child this morning\u2014in his own town, in his own house, with his own family\u2014and it has me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>About times with my dad when I was Jeremy\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d sit out by the pool in Phoenix in the early morning, Dad with his coffee and me, well I never developed the taste.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy did.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019d feel relief. Because I was on vacation. Because we had someone to help watch kids.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly because Dad was there. And dads take care of us. They make everything better.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s what we hope for, what we dads strive for.<\/p>\n<p>So my prayer is that both Jeremy and his dad will be as good at it as my dad was.<\/p>\n<p>Watching him with James, I\u2019d say he\u2019s off to a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am visiting my youngest child this morning\u2014in his own town, in his own house, with his own family\u2014and it has me thinking. About times with my dad when I was Jeremy\u2019s age. We\u2019d sit out by the pool in Phoenix in the early morning, Dad with his coffee and me, well I never developed the [&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-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}