{"id":30852,"date":"2019-12-07T17:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T23:51:51","slug":"briefly-little-girl-brightens-her-fathers-heart-with-just-a-few-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30852","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Little girl brightens her father\u2019s heart with just a few words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in the McDonald\u2019s near my house, sitting near the play area. There\u2019s one little girl \u2014 maybe 5 years old \u2014 who\u2019s here with her father. He\u2019s about my age, so he\u2019s older than the typical father of a 5-year-old. Even though she\u2019s the only kid here, the girl is giggling and having fun by herself. She periodically cries out, <em>\u201cDaddy, look!\u201d<\/em> And then she shows off something she thinks is impressive. Then, just a moment ago, she called out very sweetly, <em>\u201cDaddy?\u201d<\/em> He patiently said, <em>\u201cYes, sweetheart.\u201d<\/em> And then she said, <em>\u201cDaddy, I love you so much!\u201d<\/em> And then she went back to playing as her father looked on with happiness and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in the McDonald\u2019s near my house, sitting near the play area. There\u2019s one little girl \u2014 maybe 5 years old \u2014 who\u2019s here with her father. He\u2019s about my age, so he\u2019s older than the typical father of a 5-year-old. Even though she\u2019s the only kid here, the girl is giggling and having fun <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30852\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-81C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30853,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/30853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}