{"id":12719,"date":"2026-02-01T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:10:46","slug":"when-dad-calls-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=12719","title":{"rendered":"When Dad Calls Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"102\">\u201cHello?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"149\">\u201cHi sweetheart, it\u2019s Daddy. Is Mommy nearby?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"195\">\u201cNo, Daddy. She\u2019s upstairs with Uncle Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"250\">A pause.<br data-start=\"205\" data-end=\"208\" \/>\u201cBut honey, you don\u2019t have an Uncle Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"299\">\u201cYes I do. He\u2019s upstairs with Mommy right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"315\">Another pause.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"317\" data-end=\"457\">\u201cOkay,\u201d Daddy says. \u201cPut the phone down, run upstairs, knock on the bedroom door, and tell Mommy Daddy\u2019s car just pulled into the driveway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"511\">A few minutes later, the girl returns.<br data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"500\" \/>\u201cI did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"513\" data-end=\"529\">\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"642\">\u201cMommy got scared, jumped out of bed naked, started screaming, tripped, hit her head\u2014and now she\u2019s not moving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"672\">\u201cOh my God. And Uncle Paul?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"788\">\u201cHe jumped out the window naked and landed in the swimming pool. But you drained it last week. I think he\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"790\" data-end=\"803\">Long silence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"845\">\u201cSwimming pool? \u2026 Is this <strong data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"843\">486-5731<\/strong>?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cHello?\u201d \u201cHi sweetheart, it\u2019s Daddy. Is Mommy nearby?\u201d \u201cNo, Daddy. She\u2019s upstairs with Uncle Paul.\u201d A pause.\u201cBut honey, you don\u2019t have an Uncle Paul.\u201d \u201cYes I do. He\u2019s upstairs with Mommy right now.\u201d Another pause. \u201cOkay,\u201d Daddy says. \u201cPut the phone down, run upstairs, knock on the bedroom door, and tell Mommy Daddy\u2019s car &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12722,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions\/12722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}