{"id":7039,"date":"2018-03-28T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2018-03-28T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T09:09:25","slug":"a-hunt-for-a-tall-handsome-welshman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7039\/","title":{"rendered":"A hunt for a tall, handsome Welshman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2018\/03\/26\/mums-mission-to-find-one-night-stand-welshman-who-fathered-her-daughter-7417604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This<\/a> shouldn&#8217;t be difficult:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mother who cannot remember the name of her daughter\u2019s father is trying to track him down 15 years after their one night stand. Terri Reid says that all she knows is that he was tall, dark and handsome, and Welsh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This narrows it down to, what? A dozen blokes? Half a dozen? Now if she&#8217;d said he was short, squat, and looked as though he&#8217;d played over a hundred first-grade matches at the front of the scrum then admittedly the options would number in the millions. But tall, dark, and handsome? You sure he wasn&#8217;t Italian?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They met in 2003 in a nightclub in Blackpool, but their union that night in a friend\u2019s flat above a Chinese takeaway led to her giving birth to Channell who now wants to know who her dad is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like school on a Saturday.*<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The morning after their rendezvous above the restaurant they went their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>Terri, 32, still lives in Blackpool but cannot remember the name of the nightclub they met in as it has since been knocked down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that would help in any case. And this is a nice touch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you think you are Channell\u2019s father, get in touch<\/p>\n<p>adam.smith@metro.co.uk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If a little optimistic. Any Welshman who was tall, dark, and handsome and having unprotected sex with strangers in 2003 has likely fathered an entire rugby team by now. My advice is to go and watch a few colts games, try to spot any player that looks like you or him, and see who&#8217;s cheering him the loudest from the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>(* No class)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be difficult: A mother who cannot remember the name of her daughter\u2019s father is trying to track him down 15 years after their one night stand. Terri Reid says that all she knows is that he was tall, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7039\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7041,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}