{"id":35477,"date":"2026-02-12T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=35477"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:17:31","slug":"my-daughter-was-ashamed-of-me-her-whole-life-until-she-needed-me-to-raise-hers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=35477","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter Was Ashamed Of Me Her Whole Life Until She Needed Me To Raise Hers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a  biker who\u2019s never taken his daughter\u2019s Christmas stocking down. It\u2019s been hanging on my mantle for nine years. Right next to mine. Waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Katie left when she was nineteen. Said she was ashamed of me. Said she wanted a father who wore a suit to work, not leather. A father her friends wouldn\u2019t stare at. A father who didn\u2019t make people cross the street.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote her letters every month for the first three years. Thirty-six letters. She never opened one. I know because I sent them certified. They all came back \u201crefused.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a biker who\u2019s never taken his daughter\u2019s Christmas stocking down. It\u2019s been hanging on my mantle for nine years. Right next to mine. Waiting. Katie left&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35479,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35477\/revisions\/35479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}