{"id":385,"date":"2026-09-22T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:58:08","slug":"dad-i-feel-like-a-monster-a-father-tattooed-the-exact-scar-from-his-sons-brain-surgery-so-he-would-never-feel-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDad, I feel like \u2018a monster&#8217;\u201d: A father tattooed the exact scar from his son\u2019s brain surgery so he would never feel alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel chfr was 8 years old when cancer changed his face forever.A<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/90058116_bald1.jpg.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-id=\"1783414\" \/><figcaption>John J Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In March 2015, this boy from Wichita, Kansas, was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma, an aggressive and rare brain tumor.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-79.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"525\" data-id=\"1783413\" \/><figcaption>John J Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-86.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"584\" data-id=\"1783415\" \/><figcaption>John J Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The surgeries left him bald and with a huge, horseshoe-shaped scar above his right ear.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sub-buzz-10568-1466501614-1.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"747\" data-id=\"1783417\" \/><figcaption>John J Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One day he confessed to his father, Josh Marshall, that he felt \u201clike a monster\u201d whenever someone looked at him.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-80.avif\" width=\"405\" height=\"525\" data-id=\"1783416\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-87.avif\" width=\"495\" height=\"584\" data-id=\"1783418\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Josh didn\u2019t give him a speech. He went to a tattoo studio, Point Black Tattoo, and asked Merl Kent to draw the same scar as his son\u2019s, line by line, on the skin of his own head.<\/p>\n<p>He told Gabriel that if people wanted to look at him strangely, now they would have to look at both of them. In 2016, that photo won the St. Baldrick\u2019s Foundation\u2019s #BestBaldDad contest, with more than 5.000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Today Gabriel says that he and his dad are like twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel chfr was 8 years old when cancer changed his face forever.A John J Marshall In March 2015, this boy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}