{"id":21709,"date":"2026-07-01T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=21709"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:50:07","slug":"my-dad-who-raised-me-alone-cancelled-fathers-day-dinner-saying-he-didnt-feel-well-when-i-went-to-check-on-him-with-his-favorite-pie-i-went-pale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=21709","title":{"rendered":"My Dad, Who Raised Me Alone, Cancelled Father&#8217;s Day Dinner Saying He Didn&#8217;t Feel Well \u2013 When I Went to Check on Him with His Favorite Pie, I Went Pale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"239\">Dave isn\u2019t my father by blood, but he is my real dad. He adopted me after I was abandoned outside a church and never missed a single Father\u2019s Day in 26 years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"326\">So when he suddenly cancelled dinner, saying he was sick, I knew something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"434\">I went to his house anyway\u2014and found him crying with a woman I didn\u2019t know and a box labeled with my name.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"505\">Inside were letters and a baby blanket. She was my biological mother.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"591\">My dad had been secretly meeting her and hiding the truth, afraid I would leave him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"593\" data-end=\"668\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">But I didn\u2019t. He raised me, loved me, and he will always be my real father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dave isn\u2019t my father by blood, but he is my real dad. He adopted me after I was abandoned outside a church and never missed a single Father\u2019s Day in 26 years. So when he suddenly cancelled dinner, saying he was sick, I knew something was wrong. I went to his house anyway\u2014and found &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21709","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\/21709","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=21709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21711,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21709\/revisions\/21711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}