{"id":756,"date":"2015-02-06T05:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2015-02-13T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:01:29","slug":"living-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Living Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo:  Dylan riding home for the first time.  Ten days after he was born.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In his mother&#8217;s arms it was all the beauty I could take<br \/>\nLike the missing words to some prayer that I could never make<br \/>\nIn a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused<br \/>\nSearching for a little bit of God&#8217;s mercy<br \/>\nI found living proof&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I stumbled upon a Bruce Springsteen song that always meant so much to me.  &#8220;Living Proof&#8221; is about somebody re-evaluating their life after the birth of his son.  Dylan was so important in helping to make me the person I am today.  He was just not a child of mine carrying around a few of my genes.  <\/p>\n<p>The birth of Dylan immediately changed my life forever.  My life was touched by the whole process.  I was most amazed by how I could love somebody so much that had barely taken his first breath.  At that moment, I knew I would do anything for him.  I would do anything to protect him from the perils of the world.  It was the most incredible feeling I have ever experienced.  I could not and can not imagine how anybody could ever feel differently.  I&#8217;m sure this is why is sickens me to see how some people treat each other, especially their own children.  <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You shot through my anger and rage<br \/>\nTo show me my prison was just an open cage<br \/>\nThere were no keys no guards<br \/>\nJust one frightened man and some old shadows for bars&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Goals and objectives became clear over the first few years of Dylan&#8217;s life.  Eventually, we worked things out enough to fumble our way through life, and had another child that I loved as immediately as Dylan.  A child that we are so &#8212; so very glad to have in our lives.  A child that we would do anything to protect from the perils of the world.  We found our &#8220;living proof&#8221; in our children too. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Well now all that&#8217;s sure on the boulevard<br \/>\nIs that life is just a house of cards<br \/>\nAs fragile as each and every breath<br \/>\nOf this boy sleepin&#8217; in our bed&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Life is fragile when you&#8217;re baby boy.  Life is fragile.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s been along long drought baby<br \/>\nTonight the rain&#8217;s pourin&#8217; down on our roof<br \/>\nLooking for a little bit of God&#8217;s mercy&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LMdT19BGYj4\" title=\"&quot;Living Proof&quot; by Bruce Springsteen\">&#8220;Living Proof&#8221; By Bruce Springsteen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Dylan riding home for the first time. Ten days after he was born. &#8220;In his mother&#8217;s arms it was all the beauty I could take Like the missing words to some prayer that I could never make In a world so hard and dirty so fouled and confused Searching for a little bit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/?p=756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Proof<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanzimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}