{"id":88,"date":"2007-07-16T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T00:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycjones.ca\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:43:36","slug":"father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris called me around six o&#8217;clock our time and we talked until 2:30 in the morning! After twelve years we had a lot of catching up to do, that&#8217;s for sure. Although we covered a lot of ground, obviously, the main things were:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>he now has three beautiful daughters: Danielle is now 14. Marissa is 11, and the oh so cute Mackenzie is 5. He and Tina have been together twenty years now.<\/li>\n<li>my beautiful daughter, Heather, got married last year to a &#8220;great guy&#8221; and she is expecting her first child in about a month.<\/li>\n<li>my wife is still happily married to one of my oldest buddies, Gary Ellis, and they run a business together.<\/li>\n<li>my mother-in-law, Marion, who I loved very much, passed away in 1998 of cancer. She was a truly great lady.<\/li>\n<li>two of my favorite aunts and uncles on Janice&#8217;s side, Con and May Hill, have both passed away. May in 1998 and Con in 2000. They were both terrific people and very important to my kids. They had a place in Kincardine and we went up pretty well every summer and loved it. Chris and his family still go up there to see their kids &#8211; Andy, Scott and Jennifer, who now all have their own families.<\/li>\n<li>Chris is still in touch with many of his old hockey buddies and sees a few of the them regularly. They were a great bunch of guys. I knew that way back when and I know that now because they bugged Chris to call me, which was nice of them. So glad it worked!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was incredible to hear from him after all those years and I can only hope my daughter feels the same and makes contact as well. Chris said she knows I am on Facebook and also hopes she sends me a message. I at least hope to hear from her when she has the baby.<\/p>\n<p>Chris suggested I come down for Christmas this year, which sounds like a good plan because I have nowhere else to be this year. I would get to meet my four grandchildren! Now THAT would be a real Christmas. Better start saving now, eh? That&#8217;s a whole lot of Grandpa presents to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris called me around six o&#8217;clock our time and we talked until 2:30 in the morning! After twelve years we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/father-and-son.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}