{"id":991,"date":"2025-12-01T03:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T03:14:55","slug":"my-stepdads-final-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"My Stepdad\u2019s Final Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I drove my stepdad to the ER on a cold, heavy morning after he suffered a heart attack. He tried to insist he was \u201cfine,\u201d but I could see the fear beneath his jokes and sweat. I stayed by his side through every test, holding his hand as he drifted in and out. His daughter couldn\u2019t get there in time, but I never held that against her. Life creates distance without meaning to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pic01-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I drove my stepdad to the ER on a cold, heavy morning after he suffered a heart attack. He tried to insist he was \u201cfine,\u201d but I could &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}