{"id":18962,"date":"2025-11-18T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18962"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:19:12","slug":"bikers-showed-up-at-my-dads-house-after-he-lost-his-legs-and-he-cried-for-3-hours-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18962","title":{"rendered":"Bikers Showed Up At My Dad\u2019s House After He Lost His Legs And He Cried For 3 Hours Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bikers showed up at my dad\u2019s house after he lost his legs and he cried for three hours straight. I\u2019d never seen my father cry before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not when my mother died. Not when the doctors told him he had diabetes. Not even when they amputated his right leg below the knee two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But when four massive men in leather vests walked through his front door unannounced, my father\u2014my tough, stoic, Vietnam veteran father\u2014broke down sobbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in the kitchen making him lunch when I heard the motorcycles. Four of them. The sound rattled the windows. My father\u2019s neighborhood was quiet. Retired people. Neat lawns. Nobody rode motorcycles here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bikers showed up at my dad\u2019s house after he lost his legs and he cried for three hours straight. I\u2019d never seen my father cry before&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":158,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18964,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18962\/revisions\/18964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}