{"id":2005,"date":"2018-06-15T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2018-06-15T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:36:19","slug":"fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, of course, is Father&#8217;s Day. That admittedly silly holiday that falls so close to my birthday it feels to me like a seamless 10-day celebration of self. No complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Every day I become more and more aware of the fact that I am becoming my own dad. This used to scare me, but I&#8217;m now completely comfortable with it.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent trip to my hometown of Binghamton, New York, seeing some friends I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while, I came to an even more startling (or perhaps not so startling) discovery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0<em>all<\/em> becoming our dads.<\/p>\n<p>Yup. Every guy I know in 2018 is basically the picture I have of his dad in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m fine with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, of course, is Father&#8217;s Day. That admittedly silly holiday that falls so close to my birthday it feels to me like a seamless 10-day celebration of self. No complaints. Every day I become more and more aware of the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2005\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}