{"id":23763,"date":"2024-12-28T02:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2024-12-28T02:46:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:46:58","slug":"a-gameboy-a-secret-and-the-father-i-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23763","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 Mom tearing up. Dad thought it was from a family friend. Last year, after Dad passed, Mom confessed the truth: the Gameboy was from my biological father, who [&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-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","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=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}