{"id":47,"date":"2007-05-09T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2007-08-23T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:09:40","slug":"the-first-poem-i-wrote-about-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The First Poem I wrote about my father&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Memories of you will last forever,<br \/>\nYou touched everyone&#8217;s lives,<br \/>\nHaven&#8217;t met a person yet,<br \/>\nThat had an unkind word about you.<\/p>\n<p>You always seemed so happy,<br \/>\nBut never afraid to cry,<br \/>\nYou never asked anything of anyone,<br \/>\nExcept to give it their best try.<\/p>\n<p>You have left a model for us to live by,<br \/>\nThere are not enough words in the world,<br \/>\nTo describe how we felt about you,<br \/>\nEven if we didn&#8217;t say them the way we should.<\/p>\n<p>Dad, you are the reason I am the man,<br \/>\nThat I am today and will be tomorrow,<br \/>\nYou will be missed by so many,<br \/>\nYou made a difference in the world we live.<\/p>\n<p>People you have never met will miss you,<br \/>\nThey will miss the kindness and the caring,<br \/>\nI wished that everyone could have met you,<br \/>\nDad, I am so proud of you and to be your son.<\/p>\n<p>The laughter and smiles you gave,<br \/>\nWe know you loved us all,<br \/>\nAn angel in heaven, you are to us,<br \/>\nDad, We will always love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad Memories of you will last forever, You touched everyone&#8217;s lives, Haven&#8217;t met a person yet, That had an unkind word about you. You always seemed so happy, But never afraid to cry, You never asked anything of anyone, Except &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=47\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad","category-life","category-writingpoetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}