{"id":120742,"date":"2022-06-26T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120742"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:05:33","slug":"no-22-a-summer-with-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-22-a-summer-with-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 22: A Summer with Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>My favorite photograph of Dad is one taken\r\nAt the Los Angeles Zoo\r\nIt was a warm summer day and we took a break\r\nAfter queueing up to see the pandas loaned\r\nTo the zoo by the government of China\r\n\r\nDad is dressed comfortably in slacks\r\nAnd a loose fitting pointed collar \r\nShort sleeve shirt\r\nHe is perched casually on a large stone\r\nLooking into the camera\r\n\r\nI spent several weeks with Dad during that summer\r\nI followed him as he went about his daily routine\r\n(We both appreciated having a schedule)\r\nMorning coffee, newspaper\r\nListening to the radio (He bought me my first radio when I was 13)\r\n\r\nLunch time was at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown\r\nWe met with friends, drank tea, and sampled dim sum\r\nThen it was onto his friend who had a hair salon\r\n(She cut his hair when needed)\r\nI listened as they chatted in Cantonese\r\n\r\nAfterwards he'd cross the street to where his\r\nLife time association - Ying On - had their headquarters\r\nIt was a smoke-filled gathering place filled with\r\nCantonese friends, watching TV, laughing, and playing\r\nCards, mahjong, and other card games\r\n\r\nToward dinner time a local chef came to the club\r\nAnd put together a three-course Cantonese meal\r\nFor which members paid $2 or $3\r\nDad got his meal free because of his age\r\nAnd long-time membership\r\n\r\nI learned Dad was a Los Angeles Dodger fan\r\nAnd learned all about them more than I ever knew\r\nI wanted to know but it was fascinating as he\r\nCould relate statistics, talk about the players\r\nAnd listened to Vince Scully call the game\r\n\r\nI know there was a lot more to Dad\r\nBut I was too shy to ask and he never offered\r\nTo tell me his story\r\nBut that summer I certainly enjoyed\r\nBeing with him\r\n\r\nI miss him still<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite photograph of Dad is one taken At the Los Angeles Zoo It was a warm summer day and we took a break After queueing up to see the pandas loaned To the zoo by the government of China Dad is dressed comfortably in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121202,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742\/revisions\/121202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}