{"id":32711,"date":"2019-11-16T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32711"},"modified":"2019-11-14T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:15:30","slug":"never-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32711","title":{"rendered":"Never Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5850\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-32711-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/neverhad.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/neverhad.mp3\">https:\/\/mp3.oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/neverhad.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Never had a kid.<br \/>\nNever held my baby in my arms.<br \/>\nMy baby.<br \/>\nSo precious.<br \/>\nNo first tooth.<br \/>\nNo first words, first steps.<br \/>\nFirst day at school.<br \/>\nNone at all.<br \/>\nNo report cards, nothing but A&#8217;s.<br \/>\nOr F&#8217;s.<br \/>\nDetentions.<br \/>\nRun-ins with the police.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s no so bad, really.<br \/>\nNever having to bail your kid out.<br \/>\nOr identify their body.<br \/>\nWaiting for a match on the transplant list.<br \/>\nAs they get sicker&#8230; and sicker&#8230; and sicker&#8230;<br \/>\nIs it selfish of me?<br \/>\nNot to want to feel any of that?<br \/>\nNot to take a chance?<br \/>\nMaybe.<br \/>\nWhen someone took one on me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never had a kid. Never held my baby in my arms. My baby. So precious. No first tooth. No first words, first steps. First day at school. None at all. No report cards, nothing but A&#8217;s. Or F&#8217;s. Detentions. Run-ins with the police. That&#8217;s no so bad, really. Never having to bail your kid out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/?p=32711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never Had&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32712,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32711\/revisions\/32712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneadayuntilthedayidie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}