{"id":3109,"date":"2013-06-16T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bottomless.flywheelsites.com\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2014-10-15T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:30:50","slug":"things-my-dad-has-taught-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"THINGS MY DAD HAS TAUGHT ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister and I don&#8217;t have an ordinary dad, we have an extraordinary dad. And because of that, we don&#8217;t just call him dad, he&#8217;s Papamo. My Papamo is a bearded, biker, baker, who has been in a band since I can remember and my sister and I have always been his biggest fans. Although, I do admit that there were times (during those magical hormonal daughter years) when I would have preferred being dropped off a country club block early from that big brown truck that shook the street piloted by my father in his overalls and straw hat smoking a pipe. But I wish I could slap my younger self because now I wish I could bring Papamo everywhere. \u00a0It may have taken me a while to get cool, but Papamo has always been cool. I&#8217;m lucky to call him dad and for him to have bestowed on me all of his great wisdom. Here\u00a0are just some of things Papamo has taught me&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ketchup is the only acceptable condiment, except for mustard which was invented for hot dogs<\/li>\n<li>Hot dogs are a food group<\/li>\n<li>Beards are functional (warmth, food catcher, conversation starter, way to make friends at a bar)<\/li>\n<li>A good way to tolerate a house full of girls is to have a studio outside, hair as long as them, and confide in a 150 pound male Bullmastiff<\/li>\n<li>If a mexican restaurant doesn&#8217;t give free chips and salsa, you shouldn&#8217;t be eating there<\/li>\n<li>Fajitas should come out sizzlin&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Overalls will never go out of style<\/li>\n<li>Mayo is poison<\/li>\n<li>That you should always wait a few decades before getting a tattoo<\/li>\n<li>Practicing the piano does not involve crying<\/li>\n<li>Pizza is a pie that should only be served thin and greasy<\/li>\n<li>How to check my car&#8217;s oil, although I still always have him do it<\/li>\n<li>That the only doctor&#8217;s opinion that matters is Dr. John<\/li>\n<li>Even the toughest biker needs his beard braided for him sometimes<\/li>\n<li>The best way to save money is to bury it and not be able to find it again<\/li>\n<li>A peace sign is just a Mercedes sign without the extra line<\/li>\n<li>How to drive a stick shift (I can&#8217;t believe we spoke again after that lesson)<\/li>\n<li>To always prepare for the worst because then when it doesn&#8217;t happen you feel lucky<\/li>\n<li>Y2K could have happened<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not appropiate to call people &#8220;you people&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Some people and \u00a0situations are just &#8220;unbelievable&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Accordions can be cool<\/li>\n<li>Laissez les bons temps rouler!<\/li>\n<li>Mean people suck<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t sweat the small stuff, unless the small stuff has potential to turn into big stuff, which it most likely does<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;ll live&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you know the words to the song as long as everyone thinks you do<\/li>\n<li>Dress in leather, but have a heart of cashmere<\/li>\n<li>On the highway of life, watch out for motorcycles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for being the kindest, coolest, and best dad ever. Everyone always said I look just like you and I like that &#8211; I just hope my beard comes in as nicely as yours some day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>And go ahead and smoke as many cigars as you like because it&#8217;s your day! (And because I&#8217;m 500 miles away.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>xoxo,<\/div>\n<div>Kerrita<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life lessons from Papamo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,214],"tags":[287,394,286,285,393,288],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-thoughts-worth-thinking","tag-best-dad","tag-family","tag-fathers-day","tag-happy-fathers-day","tag-love","tag-papamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bottomlessmimosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}