{"id":5153,"date":"2019-06-16T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T14:49:51","slug":"sun-june-16-2019-happy-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/06\/16\/sun-june-16-2019-happy-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun. June 16, 2019 &#8211;  Happy Fathers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m sleeping in but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s hot.\u00a0 We did get a brief shower yesterday so maybe FEMA was right to put us in the Tstorm zone.\u00a0 Still, the openweathermap prediction was much closer to an accurate portrayal of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a &#8220;Hallmark Holiday&#8221; but I like Fathers Day.\u00a0 The dads out there get little enough recognition, and I like the pause to do so.\u00a0 I love being a dad, no matter that it changed my life or my outlook.\u00a0 I consider it to be my most important job.\u00a0 I understand my own father better because of it too.\u00a0 I had the chance to tell him so, and was glad I did.\u00a0 I miss him terribly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very grateful for the childhood he and my mom provided for us, and I&#8217;m mindful that not everyone had that experience.\u00a0 A lot of people find themselves estranged from their kids or their parents for one reason or another.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s you, and over time the reasons aren&#8217;t really that serious, consider reaching out.\u00a0 No one knows what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n<p>(somehow I screwed up the autopost.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 91F and 72%RH.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m sleeping in but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s hot.\u00a0 We did get a brief shower yesterday so maybe FEMA was right to put us in the Tstorm zone.\u00a0 Still, the openweathermap prediction was much closer to an accurate portrayal of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a &#8220;Hallmark Holiday&#8221; but I like Fathers Day.\u00a0 The dads out there get little enough recognition, and I like the pause to do so.\u00a0 I love being a dad,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2019\/06\/16\/sun-june-16-2019-happy-fathers-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sun. June 16, 2019 &#8211;  Happy Fathers Day &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}