{"id":14941,"date":"2019-03-18T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/03\/18\/brief-candles\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:51:00","slug":"brief-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/03\/18\/brief-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s my dad\u2019s birthday today. I think about him every day, but today&#8230; moreso.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>At least he won\u2019t be getting another disaster cake. That thing looked like a tire that\u2019d been stuck in the mud \u2014 but it tasted good.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1694\/20190318150719-14D1571B-4A8D-4E0C-80E5-FF7FDF72C67F.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"Dad blowing out candles\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across this the other day, the first picture taken of my dad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1694\/20190318150800-C23ED649-0707-42E9-A3ED-E4EC9AD5F75C.jpeg.webp\" alt=\"young picture of Dad\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s looking at, but I couldn\u2019t help imagining he was staring off to the future, his whole life ahead of him. And now that story is finished, closed off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Life is strange, and not altogether fair.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I love you, Dad, and I miss you.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s my dad\u2019s birthday today. I think about him every day, but today&#8230; moreso. At least he won\u2019t be getting another disaster cake. That thing looked like a tire that\u2019d been stuck in the mud \u2014 but it tasted good. I stumbled across this the other day, the first picture taken of my dad. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}