{"id":10720,"date":"2013-08-17T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2013-08-17T05:43:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:43:36","slug":"silent-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10720","title":{"rendered":"Silent Dads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad just never talked to me<br \/>\nHe found it hard to do<br \/>\nAnd now that I&#8217;m a dad I find<br \/>\nSome rubbed off on me too<br \/>\nI am trying so much harder<br \/>\nTo let my young son know<br \/>\nHow much I love and care for him<br \/>\nAnd verbally will show<br \/>\nI think that most men seem to be<br \/>\nMuch like me than not like<br \/>\nBut if you asked them if that&#8217;s the way<br \/>\nThey want to be, you&#8217;ll find<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d like to be more verbal<br \/>\nBe touchy feely but<br \/>\nThe way they were brought up, it&#8217;s hard<br \/>\nFor them to be like that, but I know it is oh so hard<br \/>\nThere are many who are trying to change<br \/>\nAnd you can count me one<br \/>\nYes one of those who does want to be<br \/>\nMore verbal and be fun<br \/>\nYes show my feelings, not hold them in<br \/>\nOh yes I think you&#8217;d find<br \/>\nI am trying not to be the strong silent type<br \/>\nI know longer want to be that kind<\/p>\n<p> By ronald gainsford<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2001 Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad just never talked to me He found it hard to do And now that I&#8217;m a dad I find Some rubbed off on me too I am trying&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10720\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silent Dads<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}