{"id":10751,"date":"2011-02-15T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2011-02-15T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:49:56","slug":"i-wish-i-knew-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"I Wish I Knew My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew my father<br \/>\nAs other&#8217;s know him to be<br \/>\nMy father just did rarely<br \/>\nYes spend some time with me<br \/>\nI hear him tell some stories<br \/>\nAbout him I never knew<br \/>\nThe memories I have of him<br \/>\nAre really oh so few<br \/>\nHe tells my son of times when he<br \/>\nDid things when he grew up<br \/>\nAnd they are then the very first time<br \/>\nI knew of his youth myself<br \/>\nThere is so much I don&#8217;t know about him<br \/>\nAbout when he was a boy<br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;m 52 it hurts<br \/>\nAnd makes me under joyed<br \/>\nThere has always been a distance<br \/>\nAnd probably it will never be<br \/>\nI will only learn piece&#8217;s of his life<br \/>\nBefore he dies, I&#8217;ll see<br \/>\nGod do not make me like him<br \/>\nHelp me to share with my son<br \/>\nAbout my growing up through life<br \/>\nSo when he is my age he won&#8217;t run<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t run and hide cause he feels bad<br \/>\nOf things about me he doesn&#8217;t know<br \/>\nPlease help me share things yes with him<br \/>\nOh yes so he will know<br \/>\nWill know about me first hand<br \/>\nNot from stories he may hear<br \/>\nYes stories about me when I am gone<br \/>\nYes God help me to make it clear<br \/>\nHis dad did things to make him proud<br \/>\nYes God help him to know<br \/>\nYes know so much about his dad<br \/>\nOh yes before I go<br \/>\nBefore I go to live with God<br \/>\nAnd help me too to know<br \/>\nYes know about more about mine too<br \/>\nBefore he also goes<\/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>I wish I knew my father As other&#8217;s know him to be My father just did rarely Yes spend some time with me I hear him tell some stories About&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10751\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Wish I Knew My Father<\/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\/10751"}],"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=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}