{"id":1177,"date":"2007-06-16T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/06\/16\/my-dad-my-example-my-hero\/"},"modified":"2007-06-16T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:15:01","slug":"my-dad-my-example-my-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/06\/my-dad-my-example-my-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dad, My Example, My Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetwil.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/kerryreenlistment.jpg\" title=\"My Dad\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetwil.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/kerryreenlistment.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"My Dad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He gets up every morning &amp; goes off to work<br \/>\nlike he has for the past twenty some years. . .<br \/>\nthinking of his family &amp; how things are tight \u2013<br \/>\nsleepless nights . . . painful times seeing his children go without,<br \/>\nit\u2019s enough to stress anyone out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He\u2019s quiet<br \/>\nonly mother knew what he did . . .<br \/>\nno breakfast so we could eat,<br \/>\nthen dinner he ate 1st . . .how much did he go without so we could get?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Strongest man I know,<br \/>\nstubborn as a mule \u2013<br \/>\nbut quick as lightening w\/jokes &amp;<br \/>\na smile . . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">he still gets up every morning &amp; goes to work<br \/>\nlike he has for so many years . . .<br \/>\nand still he is my Hero.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He taught me more about work &amp; love &amp; life,<br \/>\nthrough his mistakes &amp; good works \u2013<br \/>\nso what if he didn\u2019t have a dad to teach him to be one,<br \/>\nhe had a Heavenly Father &amp; they did just fine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Moments of just us two,<br \/>\ndinner or a walk . . .<br \/>\nstill time to talk.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I stand taller knowing that<br \/>\nhe is proud of me . . .<br \/>\nyeah, he\u2019s still my Hero.<br \/>\nhe is \u201cOld Man\u201d, my Father, Papa . . .<br \/>\nHe is the one man on earth I look up to<br \/>\nmore than any other \u2013<br \/>\nand have a great deal of love &amp; respect for.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">My Dad, My Example, My HERO!<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n2001.12.18\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He gets up every morning &amp; goes off to work like he has for the past twenty some years. . . thinking of his family &amp; how things are tight \u2013 sleepless nights . . . painful times seeing his children go without, it\u2019s enough to stress anyone out. He\u2019s quiet only mother knew what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}