{"id":13282,"date":"2024-09-07T01:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T01:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=13282"},"modified":"2024-09-07T01:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T01:35:45","slug":"the-father-was-distraught-when-his-daughter-told-him-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=13282","title":{"rendered":"The father was distraught when his daughter told him goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3861-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3861-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3861-440x226.png 440w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3861.png 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nA father read his 3-year-old daughter a bedtime tale and listened to her prayers, which finished with her stating, \u201cGod bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and goodbye Grandpa.\u201d \u2018Why did you say goodbye, Grandpa?\u2019 inquired the father. The little girl answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know, daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day, my grandfather died. The father considered it an odd coincidence. A few months later, the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which were as follows: \u201cGod bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy, and goodbye Grandma.\u201d The next day, the grandma died. \u201cHoly crap,\u201d the parent thought, \u201cthis kid is communicating with the other side.\u201d\u2018<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3862-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3862-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_3862.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several weeks later, as the girl was going to bed, her father heard her say, \u201cGod bless Mommy and goodbye Daddy.\u201d He almost went into shock. He couldn\u2019t sleep all night and awoke at the crack of morning to go to his office. He was uneasy as a cat, ate lunch, and watched the clock all day. He figured if he could make it until midnight, he\u2019d be fine.<\/p>\n<p>He felt comfortable in the office, so instead of leaving at the end of the day, he stayed, drinking coffee, checking his watch, and leaping at every sound. Finally, midnight arrived; he sighed a sigh of relief and returned home. When he arrived home, his wife commented, \u201cI\u2019ve never seen you work so late. \u201cWhat is the matter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on: \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about it, I\u2019ve just spent the worst day of my life.\u201d She went on: \u201cYou think you had a bad day, you\u2019ll never believe what happened to me,\u201d \u2026 \u201cThis morning my boss died in the middle of a meeting!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father read his 3-year-old daughter a bedtime tale and listened to her prayers, which finished with her stating, \u201cGod bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13285,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions\/13285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}