{"id":921,"date":"2007-06-18T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T22:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/dadhood\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T16:43:19","slug":"dadhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/dadhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first Father’s Day when my (2-year old) daughter understood the concept of the day. She gave me a present she made herself.<\/p>\n

\"Dad<\/a><\/p>\n

I try to keep most of my “I am the sappy Dad” stuff off this blog, but I’ve got to tell you that having Sarah so excited to give me a Father’s Day present was pretty much unutterably amazing.<\/p>\n

When I was discussing this with a friend he asked me if I would wear the hat out in public when I was with Sarah. <\/p>\n

“Sure,” I said. <\/p>\n

“So you don’t want to hurt her feeling by not wearing it?”<\/p>\n

He’s young, and doesn’t have kids, so I can understand why he totally missed the point. I’d wear it because it’s the most awesome thing ever<\/em>, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.<\/p>\n

I just wish it fit on my ridiculously large head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the first Father’s Day when my (2-year old) daughter understood the concept of the day. She gave me a present she made herself. I try to keep most of my “I am the sappy Dad” stuff off this blog, but I’ve got to tell you that having Sarah so excited to give me a Father’s Day present was… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-dadhood","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}