{"id":78,"date":"2010-09-09T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2015-10-10T19:08:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T00:08:01","slug":"in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On this, the 9th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the assassination of 2,977 civilians, I pause to reflect on what got us to that point and why we have only moved backward from that day.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering is a human condition; it is not the domain of any one country or tribe of people. We inflict it on each other both indiscriminately and with intent, thus creating a circle of pain and anger and retribution. But out of suffering comes great compassion and generosity, yes?<\/p>\n<p>When I think of the tremendous sacrifice of the fireman, police, and civilians throughout New York, the country, and the world, I wonder why that did not stay as the focus of this terrible day. To let this event dictate a path of war, hatred, fear, and anti-community-centers-2-blocks-from-Ground-Zero does a great disservice to all the people who suffered and\/or died trying to help a stranger, save a life, or provide the dead with a little dignity in the days and weeks following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>So today, instead of declaring your nationalism at the top of your voice, honor those who gave everything by reaching out to someone you wouldn&#8217;t normally acknowledge and by finding it in your heart to hate a little less and love a little more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this, the 9th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the assassination of 2,977 civilians, I pause to reflect on what got us to that point and why we have only moved backward from that day. Suffering is a human condition; it is not the domain of any one country or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_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}},"categories":[39],"tags":[20,22,23,79,21],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-20","tag-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-usa","tag-world-trade-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/images\/la-911-memorial09-e1444522032822.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1cfPl-1g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obeythecoxswain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}