{"id":23592,"date":"2018-01-12T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/12\/after-six-years-of-exposing-my-private-life-im-settling-for-silence\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:30:30","slug":"after-six-years-of-exposing-my-private-life-im-settling-for-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=23592","title":{"rendered":"After six years of exposing my private life, I\u2019m settling for silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have shared my feelings about the death of my father, the struggle to save my marriage and the daily ins and outs of my family life. Now with sadness, and not a little relief, it is time to say goodbyeThis is my last column for Guardian Family, and I contemplate with mixed feelings the prospect of 2018 lacking an outlet for my frustrations, recollections and ruminations. I have shared, and shared deeply, with my readers over the past six years. They have helped me to walk through my guilt at nearly breaking my daughter\u2019s ankle in a bike accident, the death of my beloved father, a cancer scare and the lightly disguised ins and outs of my 17-year relationship with the mother of my two younger children.During this time, I have been through depressions, crises and times of loss and disappointment \u2013 as well as much joy and satisfaction. I have struggled to save my marriage \u2013 as did my wife \u2013 without final success. I have tried to be a good father, but have failed inasmuch as I have once again left my children in a so-called \u201cmelded family\u201d (\u201cbroken\u201d is a better word). I have tried to be as honest as I can \u2013 while always seeking the approval of any members of my family before I allowed anything to be published. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/jan\/12\/after-six-years-of-exposing-my-private-life-im-settling-for-silence\" target=\"_blank\">After six years of exposing my private life, I\u2019m settling for silence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have shared my feelings about the death of my father, the struggle to save my marriage and the daily ins and outs of my family life. Now with sadness, and not a little relief, it is time to say goodbyeThis is my last column for Guardian Family, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}