{"id":9862,"date":"2013-03-22T22:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2013-03-22T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:59:42","slug":"apparently-the-internet-really-misses-its-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/22\/apparently-the-internet-really-misses-its-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, the Internet really misses its father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/12\/01\/happy-birthday-dad-i-still-miss-you\/\">I miss my Dad.<\/a> And as it turns out, the rest of the Internet misses their Dads, too.<\/p>\n<p>I was checking the search strings that have led people to this blog, and discovered that several hundred people a month have been getting here as a result of looking for words to say when a father passes away. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ScottEdelmanSearches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ScottEdelmanSearches.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanSearches\" width=\"392\" height=\"1362\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ScottEdelmanSearches.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ScottEdelmanSearches-86x300.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who knew there were so many variations on that sentiment? I&#8217;m amazed. (And there were dozens more.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/12\/01\/happy-birthday-dad-i-still-miss-you\/\">what people found when they got here<\/a> helped. But I&#8217;d like to think it did. At least a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss my Dad. And as it turns out, the rest of the Internet misses their Dads, too. I was checking the search strings that have led people to this blog, and discovered that several hundred people a month have been getting here as a result of looking for words to say when a father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-father"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}