{"id":20460,"date":"2021-10-09T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T23:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=20460"},"modified":"2022-01-29T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:01:40","slug":"donald-w-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2021\/10\/donald-w-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald W. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">February 12, 1943 &#8211; October 9, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">My Dad passed away today, and I\u2019m not sure how I feel about it, or even how I <em>should feel<\/em> about it. I remember some good times and good things that he did for our family and for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But I remember a whole lot more that was bad; moving state to state and school to school, religious rules without grace, his anger often specifically toward me, but mostly his lack of compassion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I learned a lot from him; some good lessons, but mostly \u201cdon\u2019t do it this way\u201d lessons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In some very distinct ways, he helped me learn about life &#8211; as you might have guessed, both good and bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 150px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And while I\u2019m not sad that he\u2019s gone (no one deserves to suffer through cancer) there was a part of me that thought that I wouldn\u2019t miss him, that I&#8217;d already &#8220;dealt with his death&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But I think I do miss him &#8211; there\u2019s a part of my history and person that is missing now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dad helped me become who I am, and that impact will stay with me, for good and bad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald W. Smith \u2022 February 12, 1943 &#8211; October 9, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3412,675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-people-family","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20470,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20460\/revisions\/20470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}