{"id":2597,"date":"2026-10-03T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:05:51","slug":"my-dad-told-me-i-wasnt-welcome-home-for-christmas-he-had-no-idea-the-whole-country-would-find-out-where-i-went-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Told Me I Wasnt Welcome Home for Christmas He Had No Idea the Whole Country Would Find Out Where I Went Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wall between my father and me finally began to crack while I was three hundred yards from a jackknifed fuel tanker on a Colorado interstate, on a night when the snow came in sideways and the wind screamed loud enough to swallow a person\u2019s voice whole.ParentingI was shouting into a radio, requesting a medical evacuation helicopter that could not safely fly through that wind. Emergency lights pulsed through the whiteout, turning the snow around us red, then blue, then a strange ghostly white, over and over, like the world itself couldn\u2019t decide what color the night should be.<strong>Continue reading below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>I did not know that my name was about to appear on television screens across the country.Christmas<\/p>\n<p>I did not know that the man eating Christmas dinner without me was about to see my face on the evening news and drop a wineglass onto his kitchen floor <strong>Read more below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wall between my father and me finally began to crack while I was three hundred yards from a jackknifed fuel tanker on a Colorado interstate,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}