{"id":58,"date":"2004-10-31T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-10-31T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T08:40:53","slug":"world_trade_cen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"World Trade Center Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/img_1685jpg.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=500,height=375,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Img_1685jpg\" title=\"Img_1685jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/wise_contradictions\/images\/img_1685jpg.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/><\/a>Though I&#8217;ve been to the World Trade Center Site many times, until yesterday, I had not taken the Path train.  Past trips to the site flood me with memories from that day.  I remember the fear, the burning smell, the plume of dust, and the sirens.  I know that this suffering is not unique in the world, but 9\/11 was closest that I&#8217;ve ever been to it.  So coincidentally, on the same day that Osama Bin Laden released his video message to the American people, I visited the site he ordered to be destroyed.  Remote control violence&#8211;give an order on one continent, bombs drop on another.  It&#8217;s easier to forget about humanity when one frames the debate in terms of objectives and platitudes.  (Jonathan Glover&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0300087152\/wisecontradic-20\">Humanity, A Moral History of the 20th Century<\/a> illuminates this grim topic and offers solutions.)  But now the World Trade Center site has been scrubbed clean, turned into a bit of a memorial and an efficient construction site.  I still felt the site&#8217;s power, but felt it less keenly than on previous visits.  I don&#8217;t know if I was overwhelmed, numb, or if I&#8217;ve grown so used to the sensation that it&#8217;s no longer the same.  Going down into the station took me closer than I&#8217;ve ever been and yet 9\/11 never felt further away.  Go figure.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#8217;ve been to the World Trade Center Site many times, until yesterday, I had not taken the Path train. Past trips to the site flood me with memories from that day. I remember the fear, the burning smell, the plume of dust, and the sirens. I know that this suffering is not unique in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-new-york-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}