{"id":192,"date":"2017-04-05T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/dad-aid\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:01:00","slug":"dad-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/dad-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So there I was this morning trying hard to ignore the unusual cacophony coming from other rooms in my house and trying to stay on schedule. Just as I was drafting one of a series of important emails to a client and was thinking of the words I&#8217;d say to the next one I heard the cautious footsteps of my youngest approaching my desk.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She then preceded to tell me that her brother had cut himself in the leg. I braced for what was next. Sure enough when I found him in a ballerina pose there we blood at midway up his tibia in two distinct places and I winced.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My job as a dad though is to clean, treat, scold and hug. I did all those and as I placed the last Band Aid on the kid and asked them to be more careful I had a flashback of me as a boy with a gash on my leg after some street-football on Eastman Ave in East LA.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was this morning trying hard to ignore the unusual cacophony coming from other rooms in my house and trying to stay on schedule. Just as I was drafting one of a series of important emails to a client and was thinking of the words I&#8217;d say to the next one I heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/dad-aid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dad Aid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,608,125,171,43,354,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}