{"id":132,"date":"2022-09-27T01:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2022-09-27T01:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T01:37:53","slug":"father-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/father-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&lt;==&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father; I&#8217;m Walking Through The Fields, Where We Walked Long Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m walking thru the fields where we walked long ago,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in summers thru tall pasture grass. In winters thru deep drifted snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You taught me to delight in everything along the way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>special rocks, walking sticks, little baby animals, sunsets at the end of every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You taught me to work cleverly, you showed me to work hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You helped me build play houses, and a sand box in the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You loved every season, delighted as they&#8217;d come and go,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>measuring each rain drop, building sculptures with each snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You showed me how to laugh and you showed me how to cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You seldom let a moment of your life just pass you by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There always is a part of you in everything I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I look back, I see there is a part of you in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laird Fetzer Hamblin<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;==&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;==&gt; Father; I&#8217;m Walking Through The Fields, Where We Walked Long Ago ~~ I\u2019m walking thru the fields where we walked long ago, in summers&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/father-songs\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father Songs<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}