{"id":852,"date":"2025-04-09T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2025-04-09T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:34:10","slug":"the-moment-that-defined-what-it-means-to-be-a-real-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"The Moment That Defined What It Means to Be a Real Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0She told me , she had fallen off her skateboard. I asked her biological dad why he hadn\u2019t called my wife, and he brushed it off, saying she was just being \u201cdramatic.\u201dMy stepdaughter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>still in pain and obviously upset, asked me to take her home. I looked him straight in the eye and said, \u201cThis is why I\u2019m her real dad, not you.\u201d Then I took her to the emergency room. We were there until almost 1 a.m., and after X-rays and evaluation, it turned out her arm was actually broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0She told me , she had fallen off her skateboard. I asked her biological dad why he hadn\u2019t called my wife, and he brushed it off, saying she was just being \u201cdramatic.\u201dMy stepdaughter, still in pain and obviously upset, asked me to take her home. I looked him straight in the eye and said, \u201cThis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/?p=852\" 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todaynews"],"views":1184,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfiregames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}