{"id":475,"date":"2007-04-05T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/04\/05\/son-tribute-to-his-dad\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:07","slug":"son-tribute-to-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/04\/05\/son-tribute-to-his-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"A son&#39;s tribute to his Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad died in June, 1995, nearly 12 years ago. Hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>When he died, I got a card from a friend that had a simple message. It said, &#8220;I never really felt grown-up until Dad died.&#8221; How true.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really written about my Dad&#8217;s death or what he meant to me and the rest of our family. It&#8217;s just been too hard. Even today, 12 years on, it&#8217;s still &#8220;too soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So today, when I listened to the most recent edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalflotsam.org\/\">Digital Flotsam<\/a> podcast, the content really hit home.<\/p>\n<p><i>Digital Flotsam<\/i> is done by P.W. Fenton (or P-Dub, as he&#8217;s called by everyone). It&#8217;s best described as a story-telling podcast, teamed up with wonderful music. It&#8217;s always one of my favourites.<\/p>\n<p>This edition is called &#8220;Room at the Top&#8221; and it&#8217;s a tribute to P-Dub&#8217;s Dad, who passed away on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen. You can find it at <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalflotsam.org\/\">DigitalFlotsam.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad died in June, 1995, nearly 12 years ago. Hard to believe. When he died, I got a card from a friend that had a simple message. It said, &#8220;I never really felt grown-up until Dad died.&#8221; How true. I&#8217;ve never really written about my Dad&#8217;s death or what he meant to me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-7F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}