{"id":191814,"date":"2009-06-21T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/21\/fathers-day-has-never-been-a-big-thing-for-my-dad-and-me\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T23:24:00","slug":"fathers-day-has-never-been-a-big-thing-for-my-dad-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/21\/fathers-day-has-never-been-a-big-thing-for-my-dad-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Father’s Day Has Never Been a Big Thing for My Dad and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom was killed by a drunk driver when I was 14, so we’ve always made a bigger deal over “Mutha’s Day,” since he raised me from that point on.<\/p>\n

I always call him on Mother’s, and it’s usually an overseas call, as he typically hits Europe that time of year.<\/p>\n

I’ve been doing that for years.<\/p>\n

We actually got together for a cookout today, though his and my step-mom’s being here was about their annual trip out east for a conference in DC and not Father’s day.<\/p>\n

Neither of us remembered until my daughter, Natalie, made mention of it.<\/p>\n

I did up lamb chops for everyone but Charlie, my son, who is not a big fan of meat, so I did a Cornish game hen for him.<\/p>\n

Of course, I used my Indian spice rub and plum barbecue sauce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We hung out, shot the breeze, he gave lots of advice (he is my dad, after all), and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n

My wife and kids are going out for ice cream in a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom was killed by a drunk driver when I was 14, so we’ve always made a bigger deal over “Mutha’s Day,” since he raised me from that point on. I always call him on Mother’s, and it’s usually an overseas call, as he typically hits Europe that time of year. I’ve been doing that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}