{"id":20956,"date":"2025-12-13T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:13:53","slug":"i-took-my-dad-to-the-mall-the-other-day-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=20956","title":{"rendered":"I took my dad to the mall the other day too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 92). We decided to grab a bite at the food court. I noticed he was watching a teenager sitting next to him.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_1166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20957\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, and blue. My dad kept staring at him. The teenager would look and find him staring every time.<\/p>\n<p>When the teenager had had enough, he sarcastically asked, \u2018What\u2019s the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life? man, never done anything wild in your life?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing my Dad, I quickly swallowed my food so that I would not choke on his response, knowing he would have a good one, and in classic style he did not bat an eye in his response. \u201cGot drunk once, and had sex with a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my son.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 92). We decided to grab a bite at the food&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20956","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\/20956","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=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}