{"id":8782,"date":"2013-12-07T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2013-12-07T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T18:10:11","slug":"9-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/9-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"9 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 7th is a tough day for me, it was on this day in 2004 that I lost my father. It was expected after a long illness, but nothing quite prepares you for this kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>My father inspired my love of learning and pursuit of productive hobbies, especially geeky ones.<\/p>\n<p>In April of this year MJ and I were married. Though I was honored to have my grandfather there with me, there was a particular bit of pain as I didn&#8217;t have my father to walk me down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>But the wedding wasn&#8217;t fully without him, in the cozy room where we signed our Ketubah, I brought along a framed photo of him from when I was little:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/baby_beth_and_dad_wedding_photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/baby_beth_and_dad_wedding_photo_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I love you and miss you Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 7th is a tough day for me, it was on this day in 2004 that I lost my father. It was expected after a long illness, but nothing quite prepares you for this kind of thing. My father inspired my love of learning and pursuit of productive hobbies, especially geeky ones. In April of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}