{"id":745,"date":"2008-01-08T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/08\/to-papa\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T09:00:01","slug":"to-papa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"To Papa ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not quite sure why, but it is so incredibly satisfying and sweet to see your parents playing with &#8211; and really enjoying &#8211; your children. Maybe it is that whole &#8220;full circle of life&#8221; thing or something, but it really makes me so happy to see how excited my parents get when the girls visit.<\/p>\n<p>(Yeah, I&#8217;ve so been replaced. I could ship the girls back to Michigan without J. or I, and I don&#8217;t think anyone would even notice! But you know, I&#8217;m ok with that, too.)<\/p>\n<p>As a father, my dad is great.\u00a0 But he is an <i><b>even better<\/b><\/i> &#8220;Papa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa3.jpg\" title=\"papa3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa3.jpg\" alt=\"papa3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>All<\/b> of his girls adore him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa2.jpg\" title=\"papa2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa2.jpg\" alt=\"papa2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And today we are sending him lots of birthday love. And good wishes for a great year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa.jpg\" title=\"papa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/papa.jpg\" alt=\"papa.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Papa! We love you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not quite sure why, but it is so incredibly satisfying and sweet to see your parents playing with &#8211; and really enjoying &#8211; your children. Maybe it is that whole &#8220;full circle of life&#8221; thing or something, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=745\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}