{"id":2981,"date":"2018-09-12T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:13:56","slug":"mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>She is one of a kind.<\/p>\n<p>She cared when I had nothing to share.<\/p>\n<p>She was there when nobody else was out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My mother is everything for me. She has been there for for me always. I was never a loser in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I remember getting extra pocket money from her to buy all my favourite food.<\/p>\n<p>We are both aging. Her confidence on me is at an all time high. I feel blessed to have her around me.<\/p>\n<p>One of the side effects of being a small town boy is having to live away from parents. My mom and dad are enjoying their retired life back home. They love the serenity, connections and silence there.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully after working for 10 years in the corporate world, I have some time for myself now. I have decided to go visit them every quarter. I have made 3 trips in past 9 months, so things are going according to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I still worry about their health. Looks like in 5-8 years we have to come up with some mutual agreement. That way I would get to spend at least a few months with them.<\/p>\n<p>That said, dad has played his role in my life as well. He is strict, jolly and crazy at the same time. I love him too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is one of a kind. She cared when I had nothing to share. She was there when nobody else was out there. My mother is everything for me. She has been there for for me always. I was never a loser in her eyes. I remember getting extra pocket money from her to buy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/mother\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[43,422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}