{"id":11331,"date":"2010-09-11T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T12:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/11\/where-were-you-on-91101\/"},"modified":"2010-09-11T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T12:41:36","slug":"where-were-you-on-91101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/11\/where-were-you-on-91101\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You on 9\/11\/01?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first of heard about the acts of 9\/11 Islamoterrorism.  It was a cool and bright Arizona morning, dry and delightful as only the desert can be.  I had just returned from a long hard bike ride.  Preliminary to some after-ride calisthenics I switched on the TV only to see  one of the planes enter one of the Trade Towers.<\/font><\/p>\n

I suspected correctly what was up and I remarked to my wife, "Well, two good things will come of this: <\/font>Gary Condit<\/font><\/a> will be out of the news forever, and finally something will be done about the porosity of the southern border."  I turned out to be right on one count.  Gary Condit, who had come to national prominence because of his adulterous affair with <\/font>Chandra Levy<\/font><\/a>, and who had dominated the news that summer of aught-one, dropped out of sight.  And good riddance.<\/font><\/p>\n

But I was sadly mistaken on the second count.  So here we are, nine years later, with such abominations<\/span> Obaminations as Department of Justice lawsuits against the State of Arizona for attempting to do what the Feds ought to do yet refuse to do while <\/font>Mexican drug cartels control some portions of the state.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

For detailed analysis, see my <\/font>Arizona category<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I first of heard about the acts of 9\/11 Islamoterrorism.  It was a cool and bright Arizona morning, dry and delightful as only the desert can be.  I had just returned from a long hard bike ride.  Preliminary to some after-ride calisthenics I … Continue reading “Where Were You on 9\/11\/01?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,92,119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-autobiographical","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}