{"id":86716,"date":"2026-09-21T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86716"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:08:35","slug":"clancy-dad-prayed-at-saint-pats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/clancy-dad-prayed-at-saint-pats\/","title":{"rendered":"Clancy Dad Prayed At Saint Pat&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1200\/675\/patrick-clancy.png?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Patrick Clancy on the stand\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Patrick told [<em>Sixty Minutes]<\/em> his grief became so overwhelming that he questioned whether he would live to see another birthday.\u00a0&#8220;There was a time where I didn&#8217;t think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Patrick later left Duxbury for New York City, where he could grieve without being recognized. Five weeks after the move, on what would have been Callan&#8217;s first birthday, he went to St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral, lit a candle and told his son, &#8220;I love you, buddy.&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;And I walk out on Fifth Avenue and I start crying my eyes out, and nobody cared,&#8221; Patrick recalled.\u00a0For Patrick, being able to cry without drawing attention was exactly what he needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Patrick told [Sixty Minutes] his grief became so overwhelming that he questioned whether he would live to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86717,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86716\/revisions\/86717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}