{"id":487,"date":"2016-03-11T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T21:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2020-05-22T19:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:33:53","slug":"one-day-a-long-time-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"One day long ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne day a long time ago,\u201d I tell my granddaughter, \u201cwhen <em>my <\/em>father was only two years old, he wandered away from his house and yard, he went right down the sidewalk and he walked for a long while until he was lost and he didn\u2019t know how to get home, so he began to cry. A policeman saw him and said, \u2018I\u2019m a policeman and I can help you,\u2019 and he took my dad to the police station. He was only two, and he didn\u2019t know any English, only Swedish, so he didn\u2019t know what the policemen were saying to him and they didn\u2019t understand him either. But it was a very small town where everyone knew everybody else, so they figured it out and called my dad\u2019s father. And it <em>was <\/em>his two-year-old son that he thought was safely at home. When he got to the police station, guess where my father was\u2014he was sitting on the very high counter in the front and eating an ice-cream! And that\u2019s how the police helped my dad when he was two years old and he was lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I\u2019ve told my four-year-old granddaughter this story, or any story, about my dad. \u201cDid this really happen?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it\u2019s a true story and it happened almost one hundred years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have no explanation for the tears that fill my eyes. They baffle me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne day a long time ago,\u201d I tell my granddaughter, \u201cwhen my father was only two years old, he wandered away from his house and yard, he went right down the sidewalk and he walked for a long while until &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/?p=487\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One day long ago<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dad-as-2-year-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherine.klatzker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}