{"id":8030,"date":"2011-09-12T00:53:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T23:39:03","slug":"the-bright-side-of-september-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-bright-side-of-september-11\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bright Side of September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"345\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0dBwEeCks5Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>No matter how awful everything is, Toby Keith has given us a priceless gift in the line about his &#8220;daddy&#8217;s right eye.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0I laughed at it then and I still laugh when I think about it. Please enjoy his idiotic take on September 11.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cKnowing what our core values are and cleaving to them, even in times of testing, must be a lesson when we see the results of situational ethics and temporary, expedient treatment of basic \u00a0\u00a0<strong>rights. <\/strong>America\u00a0\u00a0should not again panic and overreact to terrorist attacks against this country\u2026\u2026.the cost of 9\/11 has been billions of dollars spent, an unneeded war, and thousands of lives lost.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>&#8211; \u00a0\u00a0Richard A. Clark (Former\u00a0\u00a0US\u00a0\u00a0National Security Chief)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>For me, September 11 is inextricably linked with Max, who worked at the financial Trade Center, next to the Twin Towers. It took hours before I could make contact and learn that he was okay. He ran for his life and later learned that his office was sheared off by fire. I was so relieved, and so grateful, and so sorry he had to experience such trauma.<\/p>\n<p>But life is trauma. And that&#8217;s why we need Toby Keith to lighten our burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how awful everything is, Toby Keith has given us a priceless gift in the line about his &#8220;daddy&#8217;s right eye.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0I laughed at it then and I still laugh when I think about it. Please enjoy his idiotic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-bright-side-of-september-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[376,5,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-25w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}