{"id":5176,"date":"2025-08-24T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2025-08-24T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:58:48","slug":"messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even at 58, I go through periods of self-doubt, times when I wish my parents were there to talk me through it.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time I just push it aside and go about my business.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I get a message through media.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents aren\u2019t for telling their children who they\u2019re supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>We are here to give y\u2019all tools, help you make fools of yourselves all on your own.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Your choices, Clark. Your actions. That\u2019s what makes you who you are.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you something, son.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t be\u2026 [sniffs] \u2026more proud of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5177\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark-1536x768.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pa_clark.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Miss you, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even at 58, I go through periods of self-doubt, times when I wish my parents were there to talk me through it. Most of the time I just push it aside and go about my business. Sometimes I get a message through media. Parents aren\u2019t for telling their children who they\u2019re supposed to be. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/messages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Messages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[285,29],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-dad","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}