{"id":3958,"date":"2010-06-24T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2010-06-24T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:16:09","slug":"a-tribute-to-my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to My Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Andrew <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicgranades.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/reflections-on-father.html\">wrote a tribute about our dad<\/a> for Father&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tough love is a cultural clich\u00c3\u00a9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c walk down the Hallmark aisle in May, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be assaulted by pink and white frilliness that proclaims a mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenderness while the next month, the same aisle is festooned in blue and brown straight lines that let us know that dad, by contrast, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appreciate that nonsense. But that tough guy formulation masks some of the greatest truths about love that we learn from our fathers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicgranades.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/reflections-on-father.html\">whole thing is good<\/a>, and rings true to my experiences. One of the greatest gifts I&#8217;ve been given is my parents, and to this day I&#8217;m scrambling as hard as I can to be as good a parent as they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Andrew wrote a tribute about our dad for Father&#8217;s day. A father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tough love is a cultural clich\u00c3\u00a9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c walk down the Hallmark aisle in May, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be assaulted by pink and white frilliness that proclaims a mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenderness while the next month, the same aisle is festooned in blue and brown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Tribute to My Dad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My brother Andrew wrote a tribute about our dad for Father&#039;s day. 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