{"id":1816,"date":"2010-06-14T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2011-11-12T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T04:31:59","slug":"a-thank-you-letter-to-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/a-thank-you-letter-to-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"A thank-you letter to dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium  wp-image-1823\" title=\"Father's Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/missy-dad-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Father's Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/missy-dad-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/missy-dad-515x343.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/missy-dad.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>Dear Dad,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for hanging our artwork up in your office. Thanks for giving us money when we needed it and cutting us off when we needed to be. Thanks for not getting mad at us when we wrecked the car. Thanks for not only coming to our games, but coming to our practices too. Thanks for not yelling at us when we got in a fight at school. Thanks for putting our toys together every Christmas and every birthday. Thanks for holding onto the back of the bike. Thanks for never asking for directions &#8211; getting lost was the fun part. Thanks for teaching us how to drive stick shift. Thanks for taking us to that baseball\/basketball\/football game \u2013 just the two of us. Thanks for helping us convince Mom to get a dog. Thanks for teaching us how to fix the sink and change a tire. Thanks for teaching us how to do a flip off the high dive. Thanks for letting us learn things the hard way. Thanks for the treehouse\/tire swing\/rope over the lake. Thanks for being hard on all our high school boyfriends \u2013 they weren\u2019t good enough. Thanks for giving us our first pair of cufflinks when we got our first real job. Thanks for walking us down the aisle. Thanks for calling to check on us whenever something\u00a0 happens within a 100-mile radius of where we live. Thanks for being such a good Grandpa\/Grandfather\/Pop-Pop\/Pee-Paw.<br \/>\nThanks Dad, for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Father\u2019s Day!<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to thank your dad for this Father&#8217;s Day? 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