{"id":17789,"date":"2022-03-13T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17789"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:59","slug":"remembering-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/remembering-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Remembering Dad\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As a child, I thought my mom was the best cook. Paprika was her spice of choice and, other than that, most meals were bland. But that meant no strong, offensive flavours. One morning, when my mother wasn\u2019t around, my father made toast for me and he didn\u2019t butter it right. He left the outside edges dry and one side was burnt. I refused to eat the abomination he had served me and kicked up such a fuss he had to eat it himself and make me another one. Other than barbecuing, he didn\u2019t cook. But he introduced me to one of the best treats ever: ice cream floats. He\u2019d scoop vanilla ice cream into the blender and then would pour in ginger ale, making sure it didn\u2019t bubble over the top. He\u2019d whirl the machine and then would slide the thick deliciousness into tall glasses. I loved the gingery sweet flavour and relished every lump of ice cream that had evaded the blades. I don\u2019t indulge in them often but I always think of Dad when I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I thought my mom was the best cook. Paprika was her spice of choice and, other than that, most meals were bland. But that meant no strong, offensive flavours. One morning, when my mother wasn\u2019t around, my father made toast for me and he didn\u2019t butter it right. He left the outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17796,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions\/17796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}