{"id":1842,"date":"2010-06-22T20:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T16:11:04","slug":"its-been-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2010\/its-been-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been 5 years."},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to wait until this evening to write this post because I didn’t know what I wanted to say. I still don’t.<\/p>\n

It’s been 5 years TODAY since I got the call around 8 am that my dad had died earlier that morning. I saw their number on caller ID and my heart immediatly sank. Charlie had just left for work.<\/p>\n

We had been expecting it but I was instantly devastated before I said hello. I was expecting a photographer to be on the way and thought maybe he was looking for directions because he was lost and got instead I got some of the worst news ever.<\/p>\n

Wil was only 5 months old. He’ll only know him in pictures (I made a 20 minute video collage that I thought I was going to watch today but didn’t … Lucas has yet to see it because I hate (but LOVE) to watch it.)\u00a0 Lucas, of course, never met him.<\/p>\n

It’s brutal to lose a parent; whether you expect it or not.<\/p>\n

Daddy in the 1950s<\/p>\n

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Daddy and I in May 1999 (just 4 months before I was paralyzed)<\/p>\n

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I wanted to wait until this evening to write this post because I didn’t know what I wanted to say. I still don’t. It’s been 5 years TODAY since I got the call around 8 am that my dad had died earlier that morning. I saw their number on caller ID and my heart immediatly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-wheelchair-stuff","9":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/me-and-daddy99.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-tI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}