{"id":342,"date":"2006-06-18T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2006-06-18T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T13:46:11","slug":"a-story-for-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/18\/a-story-for-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A story for Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the early 90s. My dad had recently ended his tenure as a guest of the US Government and we hadn&#8217;t spent much time in the same place in years. A lot had changed and I would not have guessed that he still knew who I was, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>One afternoon I was talking to my dad on the phone about how Husband #1 and I were having massive disagreements about The Future. Divorce was on the table. It sucked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thinks it&#8217;s time to move to the sticks and have kids,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, who is he planning on doing that with?&#8221; asked my dad in reply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/ShyGuy1947\/ShyGuy1947_64kb.mp4\">little movie<\/a> for Father&#8217;s Day. 50s dad gives Radio Shack son advice on fitting in. You need sound and a high speed connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the early 90s. My dad had recently ended his tenure as a guest of the US Government and we hadn&#8217;t spent much time in the same place in years. A lot had changed and I would not have guessed that he still knew who I was, but I was wrong. One afternoon I &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A story for Father&#8217;s Day\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/18\/a-story-for-fathers-day\/#more-342\" aria-label=\"Read more about A story for Father&#8217;s Day\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}