{"id":12127,"date":"2026-03-20T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:34:24","slug":"i-believed-my-father-walked-away-from-me-what-i-discovered-after-his-funeral-shattered-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=12127","title":{"rendered":"I Believed My Father Walked Away From Me \u2013 What I Discovered After His Funeral Shattered Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hadn\u2019t spoken to my father in 11 years after a painful divorce and growing distance. We both stopped reaching out, each waiting for the other.<\/p>\n

When the hospital called saying he was asking for me, I delayed, thinking there was time. Two days later, he was gone.<\/p>\n

At his small funeral, I felt numb hearing others describe a kind, patient man I no longer recognized\u2014until a nurse approached me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hadn\u2019t spoken to my father in 11 years after a painful divorce and growing distance. We both stopped reaching out, each waiting for the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}