{"id":4097,"date":"2025-05-21T19:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:35:59","slug":"dad-breaks-grieving-sons-potted-rose-with-late-moms-ashes-mixed-into-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"Dad Breaks Grieving Son&#8217;s Potted Rose with Late Mom&#8217;s Ashes Mixed into the Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"219\">Roses bloomed every May, the month Ryan\u2019s mother, Rose, planted them\u2014not November, when she died. Ryan cared for a rose plant with her ashes, finding comfort in its life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"388\">His estranged father, Larry, called after years of silence, asking to stay while \u201csick.\u201d Ryan reluctantly agreed. Larry wanted to reconnect but lied about his illness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"532\">When Larry accidentally broke the rose plant\u2014his mother\u2019s ashes scattered\u2014Ryan\u2019s grief and anger overwhelmed him, and he asked Larry to leave.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"656\">Years later, Ryan finished a novel about loss and forgiveness, replanted roses with the saved soil, and learned to let go.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"658\" data-end=\"762\">After Larry\u2019s death, Ryan skipped the funeral but wrote a letter, admitting he was beginning to forgive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"831\">Watching new roses bloom, Ryan whispered, \u201cI\u2019m working on it, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Roses bloomed every May, the month Ryan\u2019s mother, Rose, planted them\u2014not November, when she died. Ryan cared for a rose plant with her ashes, finding comfort in its life. His estranged father, Larry, called after years of silence, asking to stay while \u201csick.\u201d Ryan reluctantly agreed. Larry wanted to reconnect but lied about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","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\/4097","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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}