{"id":3097,"date":"2026-02-04T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:51:11","slug":"i-heard-my-daughter-whisper-i-miss-you-dad-on-the-phone-her-father-has-been-gone-for-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"I Heard My Daughter Whisper \u201cI Miss You, Dad\u201d on the Phone\u2014Her Father Has Been Gone for 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latellagelato.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"72\">I buried my husband when our daughter, Susie, was only three months old.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_243993_0\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_243993\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"460\">He never got to see her crawl. Never heard her laugh. Never held her hand on the first day of school. From the moment he died, it was just the two of us against the world. I learned how to be strong because there was no other choice. I learned how to smile through exhaustion, how to stretch one paycheck into two, how to answer questions like, \u201cWhere\u2019s my dad?\u201d without breaking apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I buried my husband when our daughter, Susie, was only three months old. He never got to see her crawl. Never heard her laugh. Never held her hand &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}