{"id":2607,"date":"2004-06-20T05:39:23","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/20\/happy-fathers-day-dad\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:00:42","slug":"happy-fathers-day-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/20\/happy-fathers-day-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Father’s Day, Dad!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Father’s Day, dad! I’ll see you in a couple months for your birthday!<\/p>\n

Would you look at that — I actually remembered to post this on Father’s Day<\/em>! Miracles never cease, eh? Of course, it was probably good that not only did I get an e-mail reminder from Prairie, but there was also this Seattle P-I blurb<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n The national day honoring fathers got its start in Washington state in 1910. After hearing a sermon honoring Mother’s Day, Sonora Dodd of Spokane decided to create one for men.<\/p>\n

Her father, William Jackson Smart, was a Civil War veteran and farmer who raised six children alone after his wife died in childbirth. She wanted the day to coincide with Smart’s birthday on June 5, but ministers needed more time to prepare their messages, so it became the third Sunday in June.<\/p>\n

The day was nationally recognized by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, but it was President Lyndon Johnson who made it official in 1966.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

iTunes:<\/strong> “You’re So Vain” by Faster Pussycat from the album Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t: Elektra’s 40th Anniversary<\/em> (1990, 4:11).

Happy Father’s Day, dad! I’ll see you in a couple months for your birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}