{"id":851,"date":"2025-04-09T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2025-04-09T23:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:34:42","slug":"the-moment-that-defined-what-it-means-to-be-a-real-dad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"The Moment That Defined What It Means to Be a Real Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first met my now-wife, she had a 3-year-old daughter. From the beginning, I loved and cared for her like she was my own. By the time she turned four, she started calling me \u201cDaddy,\u201d completely on her own. Her biological father has always been inconsistent\u2014sometimes showing up, sometimes disappearing for weeks or months at a time. When she\u2019s with us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>she refers to him by his first name, which says a lot.Last night, while she was visiting him, I got a text from her asking if I could come pick her up. I could tell something was wrong. When I got there, I found her cradling her arm, which was visibly swollen and clearly causing her a lot of pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=852\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first met my now-wife, she had a 3-year-old daughter. From the beginning, I loved and cared for her like she was my own. By the time she turned four, she started calling me \u201cDaddy,\u201d completely on her own. Her biological father has always been inconsistent\u2014sometimes showing up, sometimes disappearing for weeks or months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=851\" class=\"more-link\">CONTINUE READING&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Moment That Defined What It Means to Be a Real Dad&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todaynews"],"views":1188,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}