{"id":16023,"date":"2026-05-06T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:03:44","slug":"my-4-year-old-daughter-refused-to-cut-her-hair-crying-when-my-dad-comes-back-he-wont-recognize-me-but-my-husband-passed-away-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16023","title":{"rendered":"My 4-Year-Old Daughter Refused to Cut Her Hair, Crying, \u2018When My Dad Comes Back, He Won\u2019t Recognize Me\u2019 \u2013 But My Husband Passed Away Long Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took my 4-year-old for a haircut, but she panicked, screaming her dad wouldn\u2019t recognize her\u2014though he\u2019d been dead for years.<\/p>\n<p>She was fine until the scissors came out, then broke down in fear. At home, I realized her reaction didn\u2019t sound like grief\u2014it felt learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I took my 4-year-old for a haircut, but she panicked, screaming her dad wouldn\u2019t recognize her\u2014though he\u2019d been dead for years. She was fine until <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16023\" title=\"My 4-Year-Old Daughter Refused to Cut Her Hair, Crying, \u2018When My Dad Comes Back, He Won\u2019t Recognize Me\u2019 \u2013 But My Husband Passed Away Long Ago\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16023","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\/16023","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=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16025,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions\/16025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}