{"id":8817,"date":"2022-06-19T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2025-02-06T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T03:05:42","slug":"dads-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2022\/06\/19\/dads-day\/","title":{"rendered":"dad&#8217;s day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parenting a toddler is an exercise in scratch that marathon of early mornings, aggravation, deep sighs, boredom and then BAM, a bright blunt joy that breaks your heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because you doubted you could do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because what if you&#8217;re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because it&#8217;s so super easy, it&#8217;s super hard, to sustain the patience, the wonder of discovery after discovery after discovery for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The days and weeks are slow but two and a half years are already gone. I love the dad you&#8217;re becoming. Keep going. \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/couchcrash-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"A man sleeps on a couch with a young boy laughing.\" class=\"wp-image-8818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/couchcrash-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/couchcrash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/couchcrash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/couchcrash.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the dad you&#8217;re becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}