{"id":603,"date":"2005-09-11T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=603"},"modified":"2006-10-08T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T12:26:55","slug":"621-of-sept-11-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"[601] Of Sept 11 dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, around this time, I woke up and was getting ready for chemistry class. On my way, vividly in my mind, I saw something so incredible that I was in a mode of disbelief. I saw tears falling down most strangers&#8217; cheek in the land of the free and home of the brave. I suspect, none of them realized that they were crying &#8211; I know I didn&#8217;t. And for a tiniest moment then, I had thought I was an American.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, Bush and his neo-con friends made me say much later, thank heavens I&#8217;m not an American.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, this post is dedicated to those of whom I saw cried on that day.<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/opinion\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4339960\">UK is overrated<\/a>. Go to the US instead. (pst, Go Blue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, around this time, I woke up and was getting ready for chemistry class. On my way, vividly in my mind, I saw something so incredible that I was in a mode of disbelief. I saw tears falling down most strangers&#8217; cheek in the land of the free and home of the brave. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}