{"id":476,"date":"2016-03-14T04:40:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatherville.com\/wordpress\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-03-14T04:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:40:14","slug":"frozen-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/14\/frozen-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">You were three years old.<br \/>\nBalls were bouncing in the gym.<br \/>\nChildren were running, shooting baskets.<br \/>\nAmong all the chaos<br \/>\nI saw you grinning at me<br \/>\nwanting me to watch you.<br \/>\nYou waved at me &#8221; I waved at you.<br \/>\nYou showed me how you could dribble.<br \/>\nThe moment froze in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>You were three years old.<br \/>\nI picked you up from daycare.<br \/>\nYou were excited about learning to swing high that day.<br \/>\nDriving home you told me all about it.<br \/>\nYou were so excited<br \/>\nThen you got quiet and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;I love you&#8221; Daddy<br \/>\nThe moment froze in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>You were three years old.<br \/>\nI was making supper.<br \/>\nYou were watching TV.<br \/>\nAs I walked by your room<br \/>\nI heard you singing by yourself<br \/>\nwith the songs on Sesame Street.<br \/>\nI stopped and listened.<br \/>\nThe moment froze in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>As you continue to grow &#8211;<br \/>\nfrozen moments<br \/>\ncontinue to fill my memory.<br \/>\nWhile they may seem insignificant to you &#8221;<br \/>\nthey are golden to me.<br \/>\nFrozen moments are memories<br \/>\nthat make the soul rich.<br \/>\nA rich soul<br \/>\nmakes life complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tom Krause &#8211; Copyright 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were three years old. Balls were bouncing in the gym. Children were running, shooting baskets. Among all the chaos I saw you grinning at me wanting me to watch you. You waved at me &#8221; I waved at you. You showed me how you could dribble. The moment froze in my memory. You were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-for-dads","tag-poems-for-dads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}