{"id":108,"date":"2010-09-11T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgttodd.wordpress.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:45","slug":"911-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/911-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFWV4xlM4QXWSdriniG9QqzSNh4nxqoFIbFzmMtFEmMZNOe14&amp;t=1&amp;usg=__tWAyTZcrpzZo5yuXnZ_2wxIpnyM=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"The towes\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTFWV4xlM4QXWSdriniG9QqzSNh4nxqoFIbFzmMtFEmMZNOe14&amp;t=1&amp;usg=__tWAyTZcrpzZo5yuXnZ_2wxIpnyM=\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a>So this is the obligatory post. I have lots of thoughts on the events of this nine year old date and their aftermath, but I&#8217;m only going to cover one set today.<\/p>\n<p>Sacrifice. Quite a few people today have talked about honoring the sacrifice of those who lost their lives on this day.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is a sacrifice? <a title=\"the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/sacrifice\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com says <\/a> &#8230; well, it has a lot of definitions, not all of which apply, but all of which involve some deliberate effort by those performing the sacrifice. Rushing up the stairs of a burning building to save who and what you can, knowing the risk,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">is<\/span> a sacrifice. Crashing the plane you are on rather than letting it be used for further atrocity, that&#8217;s a sacrifice. Even stepping up and attempting to impose order on the chaos of your co-workers in a crowded stairwell, giving up your place in the rush in order to stand on a bit of high ground and get things moving more smoothly, is a sacrifice. Showing up to work in one of the towers or even the pentagon was not. It was\u00a0just\u00a0bad luck. Calling it a sacrifice cheapens the concept and the efforts of those who did, and have been attempting to, actually <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">do<\/span> something about those events and their consequences.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the interest of my peace of mind I&#8217;ve been busily assuming that all the people yammering about the <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">sacrifice<\/span> of those those who died on 9\/11 are talking about those people who have lost their lives while <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">doing<\/span> something about those events. I&#8217;ll save the honor I have to give for them, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is the obligatory post. I have lots of thoughts on the events of this nine year old date and their aftermath, but I&#8217;m only going to cover one set today. Sacrifice. Quite a few people today have talked about honoring the sacrifice of those who lost their lives on this day. What exactly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/911-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9\/11 2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,20,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social","category-terrorism","category-war","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}