![\"img\"](\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/elsifath.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Pictured is a family barbecue at Lake Elsinore in 1958, with the fixins’ for a perfect Father’s Day. \u00a0Always the third Sunday in June, this\u00a0is the\u00a0least celebrated holiday for retailers \u00a0(read the shopping statistics.<\/a>) \u00a0Why? There’s no clear-cut answer but here’s\u00a0more about the father trend<\/a>, described as a national crisis.<\/p>\n In a National Father’s Day Contest, 11th grade winner Isabella Foster described \u00a0“What My Father Means to Me”. \u00a0Excerpted from her essay: I am my father; clumsy and too organized. I hope I can gain his other amazing qualities; a model for overcoming your fears, being positive about anything and everything and staying connected to your family, no matter where you are.\u00a0My dad travels the world for business. Every time I hug him goodbye, he seems normal; calm, collected, ready to do to work, no matter the country or continent. Never in a million years would I think he might be scared to travel somewhere! Finding out he does get nervous or frustrated reminds me he\u2019s human. Knowing this gives me courage that when I\u2019m scared, it is not a reason to quit.\u00a0My dad is my hero. He means everything to me because he\u2019s shown me that life is for living, you should take care of the people you love and always try to overcome your fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pictured is a family barbecue at Lake Elsinore in 1958, with the fixins’ for a perfect Father’s Day. \u00a0Always the third Sunday in June, this\u00a0is the\u00a0least celebrated holiday for retailers \u00a0(read the shopping statistics.) \u00a0Why? There’s no clear-cut answer but here’s\u00a0more about the father trend, described as a national crisis. In a National Father’s Day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}