{"id":231,"date":"2010-05-09T00:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T04:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:39:23","slug":"happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/05\/09\/happy-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mother&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my mother of almost 57 years, I wish you a happy Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Thank you for being a woman of God, and raising me based on your faith in God and saving faith of Christ&#8217;s redemptive work on the cross.\u00a0 Thank you for loving me unconditionally, so that I never had reason to doubt that you loved me (even if Julie was your favorite).<\/p>\n<p>To Denise,\u00a0 my wife of almost 37 years, and the mother of my two sons, the best partner I could have ever found, happy Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Have a great day.\u00a0 Today really is about you.\u00a0 You have shown your love for me in how you raised Craig and Peter, how you&#8217;ve followed me around the country and made a life and a home for our family wherever we were.\u00a0 You have shown your love for the Lord in how you&#8217;ve lived your life, and given yourself in service to God and to His church, offering your many talents and gifts whenever and wherever they were needed.\u00a0 I love you more than you can ever know, and I want to continue playing duets with you for as long as I live.<\/p>\n<p>To Lindsay and Emilia, mothers of the two best granddaughters in the world, happy Mother&#8217;s Day, and thank you.\u00a0 Thank you for loving my granddaughters, bringing them into this world and bringing them up to love the Lord, and teaching them how to live a Godly life.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day.\u00a0 Praise the LORD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my mother of almost 57 years, I wish you a happy Mother&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Thank you for being a woman of God, and raising me based on your faith in God and saving faith of Christ&#8217;s redemptive work on the cross.\u00a0 Thank you for loving me unconditionally, so that I never had reason to doubt&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/05\/09\/happy-mothers-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[93,94,92],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-days","tag-family","tag-life","tag-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-3J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}