{"id":65441,"date":"2024-01-15T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=65441"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:52:44","slug":"five-more-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/five-more-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five More Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. <strong>\u201cThat\u2019s my son over there,\u201d she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide. <strong>\u201cHe\u2019s a fine looking boy\u201d, the man said. <strong>\u201cThat\u2019s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. <strong>\u201cWhat do you say we go, Melissa?\u201d Melissa pleaded, <strong>\u201cJust five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.\u201d The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart\u2019s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter.<strong> \u201cTime to go now?\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Again Melissa pleaded, <strong>\u201cFive more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.\u201d. The man smiled and said, <strong>\u201cOK.\u201d. <strong>\u201cMy, you certainly are a patient father,\u201d the woman responded.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The man smiled and then said,<strong> \u201cHer older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I\u2019d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I\u2019ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa. She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play.\u201d\n<blockquote><p><span style='\"font-size:'>Moral: Life is all about making priorities, and family is one and only priority on top of all other, so spend all time you can with loved ones.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. \u201cThat\u2019s my son over there,\u201d she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide. \u201cHe\u2019s a fine looking boy\u201d, the man said. \u201cThat\u2019s my daughter on the\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground. \u201cThat\u2019s my son over there,\u201d she said...","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[643],"class_list":{"0":"post-65441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story","8":"tag-moralstory"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Five-More-Minutes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendstitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></blockquote></strong></span></p></strong></strong></strong></span></p></strong></strong></strong></span></p></strong></strong></strong></span></p>