{"id":35169,"date":"2026-09-27T22:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35169"},"modified":"2026-09-27T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:24:38","slug":"my-4-year-old-pointed-at-my-boss-and-said-daddy-is-there-then-i-looked-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35169","title":{"rendered":"My 4-Year-Old Pointed at My Boss and Said, \u201cDaddy Is There\u201d\u2014Then I Looked Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"187\"><strong data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"187\">My 4-Year-Old Pointed at My Boss and Said, \u201cDaddy Is There\u201d \u2014 Then I Saw What Was Behind His Ear<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"393\">A year after losing my husband to cancer, I brought my four-year-old daughter to my boss\u2019s pool party. Everything was normal until she suddenly pointed at his ear and insisted, <strong data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"393\">\u201cMommy, Daddy\u2019s there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"415\">My boss turned pale.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"510\">At first, I thought it was just grief talking. But when I looked closely at his ear, I froze.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"572\">What I saw was something my late husband had worn for years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"626\">And suddenly, my boss\u2019s strange reaction made sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 4-Year-Old Pointed at My Boss and Said, \u201cDaddy Is There\u201d \u2014 Then I Saw What Was Behind His Ear A year after losing my husband to cancer, I brought my four-year-old daughter to my boss\u2019s pool party. Everything was normal until she suddenly pointed at his ear and insisted, \u201cMommy, Daddy\u2019s there.\u201d My boss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=35169\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My 4-Year-Old Pointed at My Boss and Said, \u201cDaddy Is There\u201d\u2014Then I Looked Closer&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35171,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35169\/revisions\/35171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}