{"id":2533,"date":"2017-04-11T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T05:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:49","slug":"hidden-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/hidden-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My youngest child turned 40 today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At dinner at his favorite restaurant, a really fine Lebanese place with excellent lamb, he turned to me and said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember avoiding time spent with my parents. It always seemed cooler to go out and get high or hang out. Now I enjoy having dinner with you, I look forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted desperately to say something funny, or profound but I could not find the words.<\/p>\n<p>I just looked at him with new eyes and &#8220;I know. I wish my Dad could be here too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life goes round in a circle while moving on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2533\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2533\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>My youngest child turned 40 today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At dinner at his favorite restaurant, a really fine Lebanese place with excellent lamb, he turned to me and said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember avoiding time spent with my parents. It always seemed cooler to go out and get high or hang out. Now I enjoy having dinner with you, I look forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted desperately to say something funny, or profound but I could not find the words.<\/p>\n<p>I just looked at him with new eyes and &#8220;I know. I wish my Dad could be here too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life goes round in a circle while moving on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2533\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2533\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/hidden-tears\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}