{"id":1254,"date":"2024-12-29T03:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2024-12-29T03:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T01:30:33","slug":"a-gameboy-a-secret-and-the-father-i-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"A Gameboy, a Secret, and the Father I Never Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 7, \u201cSanta\u201d left a Gameboy on our doorstep, wrapped in a blue blanket. My parents had no idea who gave it, but I remember Mom tearing up. Dad thought it was from a family friend.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, after Dad passed, Mom confessed the truth: the Gameboy was from my biological father, who had flown in from abroad to meet me but couldn\u2019t. He left it as a gift, knowing I\u2019d never know it was from him. The blanket was from a brief fling with my mom.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years later, I finally understand. I\u2019m not sure I can forgive my mom, but I\u2019m thankful I didn\u2019t know then. My dad, the man who raised me, was the best father I could\u2019ve had, and I wouldn\u2019t have wanted him to feel betrayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 7, \u201cSanta\u201d left a Gameboy on our doorstep, wrapped in a blue blanket. My parents had no idea who gave it, but I remember&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noa24.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}