{"id":433,"date":"2025-02-09T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2025-02-09T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:14:51","slug":"my-dad-urgently-called-my-brother-and-me-something-strange-is-happening-to-your-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Urgently Called My Brother and Me: &#8216;Something Strange Is Happening to Your Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Dad&#8217;s name appeared on my phone, I knew something was wrong. He never calls me directly. &#8220;Kimberly, get Matt and come NOW! Something\u2019s happening to your mom,&#8221; he panicked before hanging up.<\/p>\n<p>Mom was invincible \u2014 always taking care of everything. What could have happened? Heart attack? Stroke? I rushed to call Matt, then hurried to their house.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived, Dad was crying \u2014 a sight I\u2019d never seen in 40 years. He said, &#8220;Mom&#8217;s gone crazy!&#8221; She&#8217;d packed and left with a friend for a vacation. My heart settled as I realized what had really happened: Mom had finally taken a break.<\/p>\n<p>I called her, and hearing her relaxed voice on the beach was a relief. Matt and I booked her an extra week of vacation. When she returned, Dad had learned to appreciate her more, helping around the house and realizing she was more than just his caretaker.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wake-up call for him: if you&#8217;re not contributing, someone might just walk away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>When Dad&#8217;s name appeared on my phone, I knew something was wrong. He never calls me directly. &#8220;Kimberly, get Matt and come NOW! Something\u2019s happening <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=433\" title=\"My Dad Urgently Called My Brother and Me: &#8216;Something Strange Is Happening to Your Mom\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","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\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}