{"id":406,"date":"2006-09-11T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-09-11T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T14:56:33","slug":"spare-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Spare Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I remember where I was when I heard.)<br \/>\nThere is no economy of tragedy.  My brain rebels when I try and compare this disaster with that, one horrible event with another.  9\/11 seems entirely of a piece with countless other terrible atrocities that have been visited upon innocents.<br \/>\nIn terms of its impact, however, the felling of the WTC towers was a singular event.  This was our cultural world despoiled.  Nothing else in my lifetime comes remotely close.  Perhaps the Blitz of London is the nearest referent I can imagine.<br \/>\nIt casts a long shadow.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nHere in NZ, TVNZ screened last night &#8216;Path to 9\/11&#8217; part one and will follow tonight with part two.  David McPhail, in his newspaper column last weekend, said we should all record it and keep it forever.  If you&#8217;re watching it, be aware of the massive controversy over its content; at the very least, it is not as factual as it claims, and at most, it&#8217;s an outright distortion of history justifying a very right-wing mythology.<br \/>\nWikipedia has <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Path_to_9\/11>a good overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I remember where I was when I heard.) There is no economy of tragedy. My brain rebels when I try and compare this disaster with that, one horrible event with another. 9\/11 seems entirely of a piece with countless other terrible atrocities that have been visited upon innocents. In terms of its impact, however, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spare Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-6y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}