{"id":8738,"date":"2023-06-18T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8738"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:36:48","slug":"keeping-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2023\/06\/18\/keeping-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"happy farther"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When his first son, Robin Goodfellow, started to fade, in a fit of grief and weird self blame, Arthur bemoaned having ever gotten a second dog.<br><br>&#8220;Mudcat&#8217;s too hyper, she aged Robin before his time.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Mudcat kept him young,&#8221; I countered on the quick, and both our hearts caved at the truth and pain.<br><br>Nearly eight years later with a three-year-old human child, same.<br><br>Every early morning, every evening drained, running on empty day after day, fatherhood pulls my partner&#8217;s face.<br><br>And the helpless laughter over something wonderful, the same grin and eye glint, provocative perk of the brow, reflected in our child, compass mirror pure light.<br><br>Yeah, you&#8217;re getting older. Objectively older. Bad eyes and organs older. But for all he runs you ragged, look to our son. He keeps you sharp, silly, sappy, adventurous, hopeful, young.<br><br>Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Arthur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mowinglawn-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Man mows the lawn with a boy with toy lawnmower beside him.\" class=\"wp-image-8740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mowinglawn-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mowinglawn-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mowinglawn-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mowinglawn.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He keeps you sharp, silly, sappy, adventurous, hopeful, young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}