{"id":22740,"date":"2024-12-08T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=22740"},"modified":"2024-12-08T03:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:36:10","slug":"the-heartfelt-truth-about-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=22740","title":{"rendered":"The Heartfelt Truth About My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 years ago, I found out that my father wasn\u2019t my biological father. This news came as a shock to me, as my dad and I are very close. I was also a little hurt that my younger sisters are his biological children. But I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n<p>One day, my dad told me, \u201cWhen I met your mother, she was already pregnant with you. She found out about it after 3 of our dates. Your mom honestly told me everything. She suggested I leave because I was only 20 years old and the prospect of becoming a father scared me. And then, as I was about to say goodbye forever, I saw your mom holding a picture. I asked what it was. And it was your first \u2018picture.\u2019 Or rather, an ultrasound scan. I asked to see it, and she didn\u2019t refuse.<br \/>\nAs soon as I saw you, I knew you were mine. And I didn\u2019t leave. I wanted to stay so badly. And you\u2019re my girl, my daughter. And don\u2019t you ever doubt that? Otherwise, if I haven\u2019t managed to assure you of my love in all these years, I\u2019ve lived my life in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 years ago, I found out that my father wasn\u2019t my biological father. This news came as a shock to me, as my dad and I are very close. I was also a little hurt that my younger sisters are his biological children. But I\u2019m not. One day, my dad told me, \u201cWhen I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22741,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions\/22741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}