{"id":91,"date":"2008-10-03T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-10-03T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:48:07","slug":"father-and-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/father-and-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to this song yesterday. It’s is a dialogue between (obviously) a father and son. This bit is from the father’s perspective as he tries to offer a wiser perspective to his child:<\/p>\n

I was once like you are now, and I know that its not easy,<\/p>\n
To be calm when you’ve found something going on.<\/p>\n
But take your time, think a lot,<\/p>\n
Why, think of everything you’ve got.<\/p>\n
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
— Cat Stevens, Father and Son<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
Tofer and I are working on a song that tries to approach the flavor of Father and Son<\/em> mixed with the book of Proverbs. I’m appreciating, more or less for the first time, a unique difficulty of fatherhood. How does one impart wisdom and counsel without odious preaching or crushing the recipient? How can one avoid being heavy-handed while still remaining responsible and truly helping the one you care for? My dad always did this well; I should have watched closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was listening to this song yesterday. It’s is a dialogue between (obviously) a father and son. This bit is from the father’s perspective as he tries to offer a wiser perspective to his child: I was once like you are now, and I know that its not easy, To be calm when you’ve found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[156,158,154,157],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-makes-me-want-to-rewatch-harold-and-maude","tag-oh-cat-you-used-to-be-so-cool","tag-wisdom","tag-writing-songs-is-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}