{"id":405358,"date":"2016-12-27T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abidingfathers.org\/?p=625"},"modified":"2016-12-27T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T15:37:02","slug":"the-real-impact-of-a-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/2016\/12\/27\/the-real-impact-of-a-father\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Impact of a Father."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgUtbL3H7Vg?list=PLUOH2Py4YpAf-kZE2Hrnmy7TdcAfspzdc\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It took years before Matthew was even aware of the way that his dad leaving, at such a young age, was influencing him and all of his relationships.<\/p>\n<p>His dad left when he was around 3 months old. &#8220;I met him for the first time when I was 25. To this day, I still do not have a relationship with him,&#8221; Matthew said.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew spoke about being ill prepared for fatherhood and wanting to be taught. &#8220;I needed to be taught how to be the dad, especially considering the fact that I didn&#8217;t grow up with a father&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The abandonment he felt throughout his life made a deep impact on him. It&#8217;s a subconscious thing. You don&#8217;t even know it. We can&#8217;t underestimate the impact that a father can have in our lives and the lives of our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took years before Matthew was even aware of the way that his dad leaving, at such a young age, was influencing him and all of his relationships. His dad left when he was around 3 months old. &#8220;I met him for the first time when I was 25. To this day, I still do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,64],"tags":[141,150],"class_list":["post-405358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abiding","category-mentoring","tag-absent","tag-interviews","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}