{"id":3174,"date":"2012-09-10T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2013-02-02T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T20:53:02","slug":"911-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last January, I was lucky enough to visit the 9\/11 Memorial when Lisa and I went to New York City.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2425-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"9\/11 Memorial\" title=\"IMG_2425\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2425-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2425-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2425.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nIf you are headed to NYC, I strongly recommend you make reservations to see the memorial. Until you can get there, I hope these videos give you a tiny bit of the feeling of being there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/LakAVn1V-4I\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the fountain<\/a><br \/>\nThe black stone where all the names are listed was warm from the sun and made me think about warmth and life and then the water falls and you can&#8217;t see where it lands. Like the people that were never recovered. Some of the falls were frozen and there was mist coming out of the water. This made me think of the loss and how cold and final death is. It was incredibly moving and poetic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5nJBPCxQ4L8\" target=\"_blank\">Video of the mist<\/a><br \/>\n It was sobering to stand there and think of the First Responders that went running in to help strangers as they were running out.  My thoughts and prayers go out to all the families and friends that lost loved ones.<br \/>\n&#8230;and to all those brave men and women in public service and the military that each day put their lives on the line for others. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last January, I was lucky enough to visit the 9\/11 Memorial when Lisa and I went to New York City. If you are headed to NYC, I strongly recommend you make reservations to see the memorial. Until you can get there, I hope these videos give you a tiny bit of the feeling of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}