{"id":7939,"date":"2015-04-09T15:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T20:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2015-04-12T06:50:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:50:45","slug":"dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7939","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7941\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7941\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-240x350.jpg\" alt=\"Bob at the Grand Canyon, 1974\" width=\"240\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7941\" data-wp-pid=\"7941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-240x350.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-701x1024.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-548x800.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-411x600.jpg 411w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001-800x1169.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/img_20150409_0001.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob at the Grand Canyon, 1974<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dad would have been 88 today. This isn&#8217;t a photo taken today, obviously, and I do have a photo taken today to post a little later. This was taken by my mom in the summer of 1974, when we all hiked down the Grand Canyon. That was a pretty nice trip. In addition to the Grand Canyon, we did some hiking at Devil&#8217;s Postpile National Monument in northern California and spent some time on Spruce Mountain in northeastern Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>I think about dad quite a bit but especially on dates like his birthday. Mom sent this photo around along with a few others from that trip. This year, I got an extra dose of thinking about dad because I got a text this morning from a good friend saying that his wife&#8217;s father had passed away this morning. This is not a club I look forward to welcoming anyone into, but it&#8217;s a place where we all get, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Dad, here&#8217;s to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad would have been 88 today. This isn&#8217;t a photo taken today, obviously, and I do have a photo taken today to post a little later. This was taken by my mom in the summer of 1974, when we all hiked down the Grand Canyon. That was a pretty nice trip. In addition to the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=7939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}