{"id":1651,"date":"2019-10-06T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T02:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2019-10-06T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T02:20:06","slug":"my-fathers-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"My father’s son"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw my father today<\/p>\n

In fleeting moment he was dancing in our living room.<\/p>\n

I was not hallucinating nor dreaming<\/p>\n

But it took me a while to recognize him.<\/p>\n

See, I got my pointer finger squeezed between the hinges of the portable dog fence.<\/p>\n

The shock and adrenaline rush causing a familiar tirade. A wail of pain peppered with a self-directed admonishment:<\/p>\n

“Ang tanga. Ang tanga-tangaaaa!” (“Dumb move. You d-dumbasssss!”)<\/p>\n

While enveloped by a crimson pain for an eternity stretching few seconds that was when I saw him.<\/p>\n

For that was exactly how he would react in situations like that. Reactions that I aways thought funny and, par for the course with my father, “eccentric”. I didn’t realize that I have appropriated it as well.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ergo, I am my father’s son and a part of my father lives within me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw my father today In fleeting moment he was dancing in our living room. I was not hallucinating nor dreaming But it took me a while to recognize him. See, I got my pointer finger squeezed between the hinges of the portable dog fence. The shock and adrenaline rush causing a familiar tirade. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47,59],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-of-my-head","tag-family","tag-garbage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}