{"id":8677,"date":"2017-09-29T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/29\/my-mother-died-a-year-ago-and-im-worried-i-will-have-to-support-my-father\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:00:05","slug":"my-mother-died-a-year-ago-and-im-worried-i-will-have-to-support-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=8677","title":{"rendered":"My mother died a year ago and I\u2019m worried I will have to support my father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fiancee and I recently had a baby and I think this has made me reflect on my parents\u2019 loveless marriage. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy father is a generous if simple man who goes to work, the pub or home. He doesn\u2019t have any friends outside of these places. He has no hobbies or friends. He is two years away from retirement and I have no idea what he will do when he does. I am in my 30s and my sister is in her late 20s. Our mother died last year. Our parents were rarely physically affectionate with each other, although we had lots of kisses and cuddles. I got the feeling my father didn\u2019t like having children \u2013 he used to complain if babies or kids screamed and ran about in restaurants \u2013 and our parents grew apart but stayed together for us. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/sep\/29\/mother-died-year-ago-worried-support-father\" target=\"_blank\">My mother died a year ago and I\u2019m worried I will have to support my father<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My fiancee and I recently had a baby and I think this has made me reflect on my parents\u2019 loveless marriage. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy father is a generous if simple man who goes to work, the pub or home. He doesn\u2019t have any friends outside of these places. [&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-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","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=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}