{"id":20788,"date":"2026-06-26T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20788"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:45:54","slug":"the-trip-that-meant-more-than-i-ever-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20788","title":{"rendered":"The Trip That Meant More Than I Ever Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"67\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"67\">My Son Finally Told Me the Truth About His Dad\u2019s \u201cFishing Trip\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"69\" data-end=\"273\">For years, I believed my husband took our son on a fishing trip. After his father passed away, my son revealed they had actually spent the weekend hiking, learning survival skills, and talking about life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"275\" data-end=\"402\">Then he shared the lesson that stayed with him: <em data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"402\">\u201cDad wanted to show me how to find my way, even if he wasn\u2019t around someday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"505\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">What I thought was a fishing trip was really a father&#8217;s final gift of love, confidence, and guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>My Son Finally Told Me the Truth About His Dad\u2019s \u201cFishing Trip\u201d For years, I believed my husband took our son on a fishing trip. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20788\" title=\"The Trip That Meant More Than I Ever Knew\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20788","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\/20788","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=20788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20790,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions\/20790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}