{"id":372,"date":"2007-06-06T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=372"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:27","slug":"my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/06\/my-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"my dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"june07.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/june07.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\ni have been gone from invisibleman for a few months and the reason is this&#8230;<br \/>\nin january, my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. he bravely tried to fight this terrible disease, but unfortunately was only able to make it a few months&#8230; He passed away one month ago today, on May 6, 2007. He was only 74. I miss him so much, every moment&#8230; every day. He was, and still is, such a hero to me and to all who knew him.<br \/>\nThis photo is from my 5th birthday, when we were still living in Brooklyn. I made the popsicle stick frame. Weren&#8217;t the 70&#8217;s fantastic? I hang this photo, among others, above my desk. I know my dad is looking down and feeling proud. (And I know he is no longer in pain.)<br \/>\nHere is a website to learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pancan.org\" target=\"_blank\" >pancreatic cancer<\/a>. It is such a fast moving and under researched form of cancer. One last thing&#8230; this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glencoverehab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >&#8220;the place&#8221;<\/a> where my dad spent his last 5 weeks. The place was absolutely wonderful so if any one has parents or grandparent on long island, they were great and made my dads last days memorable.<br \/>\nAs my mom said in the nursing home, &#8220;No one knows whose tomorrow it is.&#8221; So, we have to live for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have been gone from invisibleman for a few months and the reason is this&#8230; in january, my father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. he bravely tried to fight this terrible disease, but unfortunately was only able to make it a few months&#8230; He passed away one month ago today, on May 6, 2007. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}