{"id":6416,"date":"2016-06-20T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2023-03-26T03:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T03:14:37","slug":"my-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/my-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Asiatic lilies and 5 red roses grace the headstone of my parent’s graves; William and Irene Lampe — June 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

A few weeks before my father passed in December 2008, he requested that when I visit his grave, I put 5 red roses in the vase. \u00a0I asked why? \u00a0He told me: \u00a0“In WWII,\u00a04 of my\u00a0childhood friends were blown up in a tank; we all grew up together, we were best of\u00a0friends. \u00a0I would have been amongst them in that tank had I passed the qualifications of joining the army; I was 1\/2 inch too short…”<\/p>\n

For Father’s Day this year, I placed 5 red roses to his grave. \u00a0In honor of my Mother, I added the fragrant, Asiatic Lily.<\/p>\n

Alone in the afternoon misty rain, I stood wondering if I had ever visited graves alone before: \u00a0No.<\/p>\n

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The headstone of my maternal grandparent’s: Juan and Mary Sarabia — June 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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A few weeks before my father passed in December 2008, he requested that when I visit his grave, I put 5 red roses in the vase. \u00a0I asked why? \u00a0He told me: \u00a0“In WWII,\u00a04 of my\u00a0childhood friends were blown up in a tank; we all grew up together, we were best of\u00a0friends. \u00a0I would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,19,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-two-cents-and-then-some","category-honoring-others","category-family-friends-relatives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}