{"id":11598,"date":"2015-07-08T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11598"},"modified":"2015-07-08T14:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:16:17","slug":"video-elderly-father-gets-26-year-old-letter-from-his-deceased-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/08\/video-elderly-father-gets-26-year-old-letter-from-his-deceased-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Elderly Father Gets 26-Year-Old Letter From His Deceased Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father got a message from his son from beyond the grave that had been delayed for 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>Duane Schrock Jr. sent his father a note for Father&#8217;s Day in 1989 but it never made it to him.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had a sometimes strained relationship because Duane Schrock Sr. did not approve of his son&#8217;s homosexuality, the father told ABC affiliate WSET in Lynchburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The note was an effort to bridge that divide of sorts, but it never made it to his father before Duane Jr. died of AIDS in 1995. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/elderly-father-26-year-letter-deceased-son\/story?id=32277761\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: currentColor;\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=32264850\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\">ABC US News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\/video\">World News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Duane-Schrock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11599\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Duane-Schrock.jpg\" alt=\"Duane Schrock\" width=\"459\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Duane-Schrock.jpg 459w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Duane-Schrock-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father got a message from his son from beyond the grave that had been delayed for 26 years. Duane Schrock Jr. sent his father a note for Father&#8217;s Day in 1989 but it never made it to him. The pair had a sometimes strained relationship because Duane Schrock Sr. did not approve of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11600,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11598\/revisions\/11600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}