{"id":15192,"date":"2024-12-24T20:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2024-12-24T20:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T20:24:36","slug":"a-voice-from-my-dad-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=15192","title":{"rendered":"A Voice From My Dad 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly lost my dad when I was 10. The last gift he brought me was a singing teddy bear. I kept it, and 20 years later, I gave it to my son when he turned 7.<\/p>\n<p>We needed to add batteries to make it sing again. I opened it, and my entire body went numb when I discovered a very unexpected sight.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the battery box, he had placed a small cassette. I can\u2019t believe that I found this cassette now, 20 years after his death. I found a recorder and started to listen to it. I had chills.<\/p>\n<p>It was my dad\u2019s voice, reading me favorite stories, sharing funny memories, and offering advice for my future self.<\/p>\n<p>He ended by saying that, since he wouldn\u2019t meet my children, he wanted me to pass the cassette to them so they could \u201cmeet\u201d their granddad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suddenly lost my dad when I was 10. The last gift he brought me was a singing teddy bear. I kept it, and 20 years later,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15192","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\/15192","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=15192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15194,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions\/15194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}