{"id":2066,"date":"2016-03-16T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2021-05-16T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T22:50:09","slug":"my-three-fathers-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/my-three-fathers-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"My Three Fathers (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>My first father was biological.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From him I learned that life can be hard, unfair, and can hit below the belt.He taught me how to stand like a man, throw a punch, and absorb physical and mental trauma.He taught me how to be tough, how to survive, but not how to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My second father was symbolic and idealistic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He taught me how to feel with my eyes, to think with my hands, and to trust my senses.He taught me that I was worthy, clever, and could excel if I really did the work.He taught me to question, to teach myself, and to love learning and exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My third father is adopted and gentle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From him, I gradually gained full acceptance into a sweet family.From him I learned that everyone suffers, and that music and humour can soften difficult moments.He showed me that love can be humble, quiet and unspoken, yet present and unwavering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/my-three-fathers-part-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2064\">My Three Fathers (Part 2)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first father was biological. From him I learned that life can be hard, unfair, and can hit below the belt.He taught me how to stand like a man, throw a punch, and absorb physical and mental trauma.He taught me how to be tough, how to survive, but not how to live. My second father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/my-three-fathers-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Three Fathers (Part 1)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-memoirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}