{"id":20410,"date":"2013-01-27T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2013-01-27T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T07:13:01","slug":"i-was-only-waiting-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/i-was-only-waiting-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I was only waiting for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5788568-father-throwing-his-kid-up-in-the-air-on-the-beach\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The boy walked along the ocean shore . . . trying not to stray.<\/strong>
\n He looked up to his father saying, \u201cDad, I want to play.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

His father looked upon him, with love showing in his eyes.<\/strong>
\n \u201cDo what you want to, my son . . . but do not leave my side.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI would never leave you Daddy, I love you way too much.\u201d<\/strong>
\n But the boy took a step away, out of his father\u2019s range of touch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He walked through the surf, the waves tickling one toe.<\/strong>
\n \u201cIf I take one more step in . . .\u201d he thought, \u201cFather will never know.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

His father called out to him, \u201cSon, to me remain true!\u201d<\/strong>
\n The boy thought with glee . . . \u201cAt the moment I don\u2019t need you!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

His father felt a sadness, but he held his tongue.<\/strong>
\n Sometimes lessons need to be learned . . . even when so young.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The boy stepped out a little further . . . the water covering his waist.<\/strong>
\n His father spoke with urgency . . . his father spoke with haste.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son, come back to me,\u201d he said, \u201cThe day is almost done!\u201d.<\/strong>
\n \u201cNot yet, Dad,\u201d the boy yelled, \u201cI\u2019m having too much fun!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the boy did not have his father\u2019s insight so he could not yet tell,<\/strong>
\n The tide was coming in fast . . . there would be no time to yell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFather!\u201d he tried to scream, as the water covered his head.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI need you now, Daddy!\u201d was what the boy had said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in a single instant his father was by his side.<\/strong>
\n \u201cI thought you left me, Daddy . . . I thought you went to hide.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The father looked upon his son . . . a tear streaming down his cheek.<\/strong>
\n The boy looked upon his father . . . and cried the sobs of the meek.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI would never leave you son . . . for I love you just the same.\u201d<\/strong>
\n \u201cI was only waiting . . . for you to call upon my name.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The boy walked along the ocean shore . . . trying not to stray. He looked up to his father saying, \u201cDad, I want to play.\u201d His father looked upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20415,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions\/20415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}