{"id":199,"date":"2017-03-08T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/hugging-it-out\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:44:00","slug":"hugging-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/hugging-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging it Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At drop off today the kids as usual moseyed off to class without even giving a good bye or look back. That&#8217;s typical. As I started to plug in my phone&#8217;s headset so I could listen to the latest biography a scene reached my eye. A husky big man was embracing a boy with all his might. They swayed as they hugged and even from my far off spot I could tell this exchange meant a whole lot to the two. Eventually they had to peel away from one another and the boy (who could not have been older than 10) heading into campus.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The big guy in his gray pants and crimson sweater waited and watched his boy get lost in the throng of kids. Funny that he didn&#8217;t look like the &#8220;hugging&#8221; type when I had a change to give him my full estimate.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My assessment matters not&#8230;he got his love for the day and I ached a little for not getting mine.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At drop off today the kids as usual moseyed off to class without even giving a good bye or look back. That&#8217;s typical. As I started to plug in my phone&#8217;s headset so I could listen to the latest biography a scene reached my eye. A husky big man was embracing a boy with all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/hugging-it-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hugging it Out&#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":[23,125,369,624,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}