{"id":4001,"date":"2011-09-11T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4001"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:58:32","slug":"my-first-year-after-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4001","title":{"rendered":"My first year after 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Music\/a'capellachoir.htm\">I altered<\/a> my original website shortly after the attack on the World Trade Towers. Sadly the mpeg no longer seems to work. It was a song performed by my daughter&#8217;s Duluth East Choir probably within a stone&#8217;s throw of the Towers when her choir toured the East Coast. I took the picture of the group in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/images\/personalphotos\/WTradeCntr1999.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put my flag up every day for a month afterwards. I gave undue support to the President. I have, I hope, remained vigilant. I take off my damned shoes at every airport.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t spend all day today on the tenth Anniversary watching the replays. I did, however, tune into the television for the twenty minutes of bagpipers and the Brooklyn Children&#8217;s Choir at the flag raising at the Memorial. Sitting on my lap quietly watching with me was my year-and-a-half old Grandson. He joined me in rapt attention perhaps for no other reason than it was pretty novel to see a television turned on at that time of the day. I told him a bit about what he was seeing that was wide of his ability to comprehend. When President Obama read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/108\/19\/46.html\">46th Psalm<\/a> he twice repeated: &#8220;the God of Jacob is our refuge.&#8221; It gave me chills. My little one&#8217;s name is Jacob. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I altered my original website shortly after the attack on the World Trade Towers. Sadly the mpeg no longer seems to work. It was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14819,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions\/14819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}