{"id":158328,"date":"2022-04-12T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32034270"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T19:52:33","slug":"32034270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/32034270","title":{"rendered":"I was born the product of a scandalous affair between my mom and my grandfather&#8217;s best friend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission.Photo by Brittani Burns on UnsplashI&#8217;m a pretty dramatic person, but when I say that I was born of secrets and lies, I am not kidding.I&#8217;ve never met my biological father.When I was little, like in third or fourth grade, I broke down and demanded that my mother tell me where he was.It was hard for me as a kid, because I was living in an extremely small town where I was literally the only child in my class without a father figure. My mom and I lived in a small house with my grandparents and great-grandmother, and I knew all throughout my childhood that something important was missing but I never thought much about it until the usual childhood taunts of:&#8220;Where&#8217;s your dad? Don&#8217;t you have a dad?&#8221;And for years I had to answer that I didn&#8217;t know, until I demanded contact and, for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission. I&#8217;m a pretty dramatic person, but when I say that I was born of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}