{"id":12,"date":"2015-03-02T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-03-16T03:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T03:20:04","slug":"the-gift-dedicated-to-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Dedicated to my father<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young man<br \/>\ndreaming his mother&#8217;s dream<br \/>\na land beyond ocean&#8217;s depth<br \/>\nwhere freedom and adventure live<\/p>\n<p>A young man with his bride<br \/>\nchasing his dream of another land<br \/>\ncrossing the stormy angry Atlantic<br \/>\nfearing together they dare a new life<\/p>\n<p>Strange culture strange language<br \/>\nscared and lonely struggling to live the dream<br \/>\npursuing love pursuing hope<br \/>\ndetermined to give the gift<\/p>\n<p>A daughter is born<br \/>\nlearning the old ways with the new<br \/>\nadapting, growing, blossoming<br \/>\nin this land given to her Canada<\/p>\n<p>Remembering my roots<br \/>\nremembering my history<br \/>\nembracing a new culture<br \/>\ncreating the future, my gift<\/p>\n<p>By Janette Wittwer<br \/>\n<em>(written many years ago)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to my father A young man dreaming his mother&#8217;s dream a land beyond ocean&#8217;s depth where freedom and adventure live A young man with his bride chasing his dream of another land crossing the stormy angry Atlantic fearing together they dare a new life Strange culture strange language scared and lonely struggling to live &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/?p=12\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janettewittwer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}