My son just turned 6 last week. Ever since he was born, we\u2019ve kept birthdays small \u2014 just close family, a homemade cake, and balloons.<\/p>\n
But this year, he kept asking when \u201cthe man with the blue hat\u201d would call<\/strong>. I thought it was something from a cartoon or a game, so I brushed it off.<\/p>\n Then on the night of his birthday, our landline rang<\/strong> \u2014 which is strange, because we haven\u2019t used it in years. I picked it up out of curiosity.<\/p>\n A man’s voice, calm and deep, said: Then he hung up.<\/p>\n I froze. No one we know talks like that. And we never told anyone our landline still worked.<\/strong><\/p>\n The next day, I asked Liam who the man in the blue hat was. My son just turned 6 last week. Ever since he was born, we\u2019ve kept birthdays small \u2014 just close family, a homemade cake, and balloons. But this year, he kept asking when \u201cthe man with the blue hat\u201d would call. I thought it was something from a cartoon or a game, so I brushed it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cTell Liam happy birthday. I\u2019m proud of him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
He said, \u201cHe visits me in my dreams. He said he used to know you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"