{"id":4055,"date":"2025-04-25T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:43:11","slug":"the-moment-that-defined-what-it-means-to-be-a-real-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=4055","title":{"rendered":"The Moment That Defined What It Means to Be a Real Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I met my now-wife, she had a 3-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>I treated her like my own, and by age 4, she called me daddy.<\/p>\n<p>Her biological dad was inconsistent in her life, and she called him by his first name when with us.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, while visiting him, my stepdaughter texted me to pick her up. I arrived to find her with a swollen,<\/p>\n<p>painful arm from a skateboard fall. When I asked why he hadn\u2019t called my wife, he dismissed it as \u201cdramatic.<\/p>\n<p>My stepdaughter, in pain, asked to leave, and I told her bio dad,<\/p>\n<p>This is why I\u2019m her real dad, not you.\u201d At the ER until 1 a.m., it turned out her arm was broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I met my now-wife, she had a 3-year-old daughter. I treated her like my own, and by age 4, she called me daddy. Her biological dad&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4056,"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-4055","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\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}