{"id":1825,"date":"2016-06-21T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2016-06-21T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T01:32:58","slug":"on-fathers-and-stories-and-stories-about-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/on-fathers-and-stories-and-stories-about-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers, and Stories, and Stories About Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This time last year I sat for days with my father in his room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, recording his voice as he narrated the story of his life. \u201cShe\u2019s helping me write my memoirs,\u201d he quipped to the endless parade of nurses passing through to change the dressings on his legs, take his blood pressure, administer meds. It wasn\u2019t the first time he\u2019d been in one of these rooms, and it wasn\u2019t going to be the last, but by then he was well known to the staff on the eighth floor, as well as their allies down in the ER and upstairs in the CCU, and they took my winking iPhone in stride.\u00a0<span id=\"more-152294\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In honor of Father&#8217;s Day I wrote a little bit about\u00a0my father, and other fathers, and stories about fathers and, well, patriarchy &#8212; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2016\/06\/fathers-day-roundup-remembrance\/\">Sunday Rumpus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time last year I sat for days with my father in his room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, recording his voice as he narrated the story of his life. \u201cShe\u2019s helping me write my memoirs,\u201d he quipped to the endless parade of nurses passing through to change the dressings on his legs, take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/on-fathers-and-stories-and-stories-about-fathers\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}