{"id":170,"date":"2001-09-21T03:39:03","date_gmt":"2001-09-21T08:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2001-09-21T03:39:03","modified_gmt":"2001-09-21T08:39:03","slug":"it-finally-dawned-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"It finally dawned on me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It finally dawned on me what hurts so much about that picture; it&#8217;s a warning light, intended to help aircraft avoid collision with these tall structures.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>\nI hope we do not let this horrific tragedy make us cynical in all our human activities.&nbsp;  I hope we can maintain the optimism which makes America one of the most desirable places on earth to live.&nbsp;  We cannot predict every monstrous plan, nor forsee every potential for evil.&nbsp;  We cannot create lives of utter invulnerability in America without losing a great deal of what makes those lives so very much worth living.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<div>\nThe course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. <\/p>\n<div>President George W. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/US\/09\/20\/gen.bush.transcript\/\" title=\"transcript at CNN\">addressing a joint session of Congress<\/a> on Thursday night, September 20, 2001.<br \/>(I never thought I would ever quote him.&nbsp;  Strange times indeed.)\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It finally dawned on me what hurts so much about that picture; it&#8217;s a warning light, intended to help aircraft avoid collision with these tall structures.&nbsp; I hope we do not let this horrific tragedy make us cynical in all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[269,206,19,209],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-george-w-bush","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}