{"id":10719,"date":"2006-09-11T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T03:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/11\/unfortunate-phrasing\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T03:05:42","slug":"unfortunate-phrasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/11\/unfortunate-phrasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate phrasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm morning in late August 2001, I leaned against tower one&#8217;s base&#8211;the glass and steel stretched so incredibly high&#8211;and looked upwards into an endless blue sea. An African dance squad treated the morning crowd to a free exhibition. It smelled like adrenaline, exhaust and steam. The Wife suggested taking a tour to the sky deck. The line reached down the stairs and wound around most the Byzantine lobby. Put off by the crowds, I said something like, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be back in two weeks after school starts. It&#8217;ll be better. There&#8217;ll be less people then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A statement that rings in my ears, it&#8217;s the biggest reason I resumed writing after falling away from the habit for nearly six years. Never know what the next day might bring, and how many more there might be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site-images\/wtc.jpg\" alt=\"WTC\" \/><br \/>\nNever forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm morning in late August 2001, I leaned against tower one&#8217;s base&#8211;the glass and steel stretched so incredibly high&#8211;and looked upwards into an endless blue sea. An African dance squad treated the morning crowd to a free exhibition. It smelled like adrenaline, exhaust and steam. The Wife suggested taking a tour to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}