{"id":7539,"date":"2025-10-02T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:00:55","slug":"my-father-left-when-i-was-8-but-his-letters-found-me-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7539","title":{"rendered":"My Father Left When I Was 8 \u2014 But His Letters Found Me Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"46\" data-end=\"118\">\n<p data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"261\">My dad left when I was a child and passed away recently. I thought he had forgotten me \u2014 until a half-sibling gave me a box he left behind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"412\">Inside were letters he\u2019d written to me over the years but never sent \u2014 filled with apologies, regrets, and love. He had even kept old photos of me.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"518\">I realized then: even though distance and silence kept us apart, in his heart, he had never let me go.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"599\">Sometimes closure comes not from words spoken, but from the ones left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad left when I was a child and passed away recently. I thought he had forgotten me \u2014 until a half-sibling gave me a box he left behind. Inside were letters he\u2019d written to me over the years but never sent \u2014 filled with apologies, regrets, and love. He had even kept old photos &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","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\/7539","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=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}