{"id":61,"date":"2009-12-15T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-12-15T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T13:48:26","slug":"sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Natasha would have turned 16.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the eighth\u00a0time we&#8217;ve celebrated her birthday without her.\u00a0 Each year on Dec. 17 we\u00a0host a group of her friends and their families\u00a0at the local Chinese restaurant for dinner.\u00a0 I look forward to these gatherings &#8212; even\u00a0though they are bittersweet &#8212; because\u00a0they give me an opportunity to picture Natasha at whatever age\u00a0her friends are now, to see how they look and interact (with each other, their parents and other\u00a0adults) and imagine Natasha at a similar stage.\u00a0 Somehow in my mind&#8217;s eye she&#8217;s keeping up with them &#8212;\u00a0and I believe she lives on in their hearts, as she does in mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Natasha would have turned 16.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the eighth\u00a0time we&#8217;ve celebrated her birthday without her.\u00a0 Each year on Dec. 17 we\u00a0host a group of her friends and their families\u00a0at the local Chinese restaurant for dinner.\u00a0 I look forward to these gatherings &#8212; even\u00a0though they are bittersweet &#8212; because\u00a0they give me an opportunity to picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathersforever.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}