{"id":66,"date":"2005-09-11T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-11\/66"},"modified":"2005-09-11T20:15:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T11:15:58","slug":"i-forgot-the-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-11\/66","title":{"rendered":"I Forgot the Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew today was the 11th, but <span class='nobr'>I forgot<\/span> that it was &#8220;9\/11&#8221;\nuntil the priest mentioned it at <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.kyoto.catholic.jp\/new\/kyokai\/cathedrala.html\">mass<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I first heard of the events that 9\/11 morning as <span class='nobr'>I pulled<\/span> away from my\ndriveway in Cupertino, CA, and turned on the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/kcbs.com\">all-news radio station<\/a> that <span class='nobr'>I listened<\/span> to during\nmy commute. <span class='nobr'>The announcers<\/span> were watching live coverage on TV and not long\nafter <span class='nobr'>I started<\/span> listening reported that the first tower was collapsing. <span class='nobr'>At first<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I just<\/span> assumed that <span class='nobr'>I must<\/span> be misunderstanding <i>something<\/i>, but\nby the time\r <span class='nobr'>I arrived<\/span> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\">work<\/a> in\n<span class='nobr'>Sunnyvale 20<\/span> minutes later, the second tower had collapsed. After parking, <span class='nobr'>I immediately<\/span> went to the break room and watched the TV in silence with\neveryone else trickling in that unforgettable morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew today was the 11th, but I forgot that it was \"9\/11\" until the priest mentioned it at mass.<\/p> <p>I first heard of the events that 9\/11 morning as I pulled away from my driveway in Cupertino, CA, and turned on the all-news radio station that I listened to during my commute. The announcers were watching live coverage on TV and not long after I started listening reported that the first tower was collapsing. At first I just assumed that I must be misunderstanding something, but by the time I arrived at work in Sunnyvale 20 minutes later, the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}